For though Chabrias was sluggish and hard to move at other times, in actual battle his spirit was excited and all on fire, and he would rush on with the boldest at too great a hazard, just as, without doubt, he actually threw away his life at Chios by being the first to drive his trireme to shore and trying to force a landing.
Edition :
Plutarch's Lives VIII: Sertorius and Eumenes, Phocion and Cato the Younger, ed. Bernadotte Perrin, Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - William Heinemann Ltd.: London 1919 (The Loeb Classical Library 100).
Remark :
perpetrator: The origin/composition of the chiotean defenders opposing the athenian embarkment (inhabitants, mercenaries etc.) ist not known. longtermconsequence: The successfull repel of the athenian fleet in 357 B.C. leads to the independence of Chios following the end of the Social War 355 B.C.
