the latter was really the man in power." {1592} In the summer of 405 B. C. Lysandros made a sudden movement from the southern Ægean to the Hellespont, and laid siege to the rich town of Lampsacus, on the Asiatic side. The Athenians followed him, but not promptly enough to save Lampsacus, which they found in his possession when they arrived. They took their station, thereupon, at the mouth of the little stream called the Aigospotamoi (the Goat's Stream), directly opposite to Lampsacus, and endeavored for four successive days to provoke Lysandros to fight. He refused, watching his opportunity for the surprise which he effected on the fifth day, when he dashed across the narrow channel and caught the Athenian ships unprepared, their crews mostly scattered on shore. One only, of the six Athenian generals, Conon, had foreseen danger and was alert. Conon, with twelve triremes, escaped. The remaining ships, about one hundred and seventy in number, were captured almost without the loss of a man on the Peloponnesian side. Of the crews, some three or four thousand Athenians were pursued on shore and taken prisoners, to be afterwards slaughtered in cold blood. Two of the incapable generals shared their fate. Of the other generals who escaped, some at least were believed to have been bribed by Lysandros to betray the fleet into his hands. The blow to Athens was deadly. She had no power of resistance left, and when her enemies closed around her, a little later, she starved within her walls until resistance seemed no longer heroic, and then gave herself up to their mercy. _G. W. Cox, The Athenian Empire, chapter 7._ ALSO IN: _C. Thirlwall, History of Greece, chapter 30 (volume 4)._ _Plutarch, Lysander._ _Xenophon, Hellenica, book 2, chapter 1._ GREECE: B. C. 404. End of the Peloponnesian War. Fall of Athens. See ATHENS: B. C. 404. GREECE: B. C. 404-403. The Year of Anarchy at Athens. Reign of the Thirty. See ATHENS: B. C. 404-403. GREECE: B. C. 401-400. The expedition of Cyrus, and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks. See PERSIA: B. C.,401-400. GREECE: B. C. 399-387. Spartan war with Persia. Greek confederacy against Sparta. The Corinthian War. Peace of Antalcidas.