History of the Peloponnesian War

After this they marched against Antandrus, and took the town through the treachery of the inhabitants. And their design was to liberate both the other [*]( i. e. situated on the ἀκτὴ, or coast, of Asia opposite to Lesbos.) Actaean towns, as they were called—which the Athenians held, though formerly the Mytilenaeans owned them—and, above all, Antandrus; having fortified which, (for there were great facilities for building ships there, as there was a supply of timber, with Ida close at hand,) and sallying from it, as they easily might, with resources of every other kind, they purposed to ravage Lesbos, which lay near, and to subdue the Aeolian towns on the mainland. Such were the preparations which they meant to make.