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The Greeks who had set out from Mykale for the Hellespont first anchored off Lectum1 having been stopped by contrary winds, and came from there to Abydos, where they found the bridges broken which they thought would still be in place; these were in fact the chief cause of their coming to the Hellespont. [2] The Peloponnesians then who were with Leutychides decided to sail away to Hellas, but the Athenians, with Xanthippus their general, that they would remain there and attack the Chersonesus. So the rest sailed away, but the Athenians crossed over to the Chersonesus and laid siege to Sestus.

1 At the western end of the bay of Adramyttium.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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