Especially in the sea-fight off Naxos [Chabrias] conferred no little name and fame upon Phocion; for he gave him command of the left wing, and here the battle raged hotly and the issue was speedily decided. Accordingly, as this was the first sea-fight which the Athenians had fought with the Greeks on their own account since the capture of their city, and as it had succeeded, they made exceeding much of Chabrias, and came to look upon Phocion as a man fit for command.
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 :
motive: The Spartan fleet tried to block Athens' source of grain in the Aegean sea in 376BC, so Athens sent out her fleet. long-term consequence: The seafight of Naxos reassured the Athenian hegemony in the Aegean sea.
Notes :
Phocion's success in this battle contributed to his good reputation as commander among Athenians.
