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Meanwhile the Greeks, who had left Mycale, and sailed for the
Hellespont, were forced by contrary winds to anchor near Lectum;
from which place they afterwards sailed on to Abydos. On arriving
here, they discovered that the bridges, which they had thought to find
standing, and which had been the chief cause of their proceeding to the
Hellespont, were already broken up and destroyed. Upon this
discovery, Leotychides, and the Peloponnesians under him, were
anxious to sail back to Greece; but the Athenians, with Xanthippus
their captain, thought good to remain, and resolved to make an attempt
upon the Chersonese. So, while the Peloponnesians sailed away to
their homes, the Athenians crossed over from Abydos to the
Chersonese, and there laid siege to Sestos.
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