History of the Peloponnesian War

It was now late, and the Paean had been sung by them for the advance, when the Corinthians suddenly began to row sternwards, on observing twenty ships of the Athenians sailing up; which the Athenians had sent after the ten to help them fearing, (as was the case,) that the Corcyraeans might be conquered, and their own ten ships be [*]( Arnold compares II. 61. ταπεινὴ ὑμῶν ἡ διάνοια ἐγκαρτερεῖν ἅ ἔγνωτε and Herodotus VI. 109. ὀλίγους γὰρ εἶναι στρατῇ τῇ μήδων συμβάλλειν.) too few to aid them.

These, then, the Corinthians having first seen, and suspecting that they were from Athens, [and were] not merely as many as they saw, but more, began to retreat.

But by the Corcyraeans they were not seen, (for they were advancing more out of their view,) and they wondered at the Corinthians rowing astern, till some saw them and said,

There are slips yonder sailing towards us.