The Athenians and the Peloponnesians

The Athenians were able to land on the eastern side of the island and began to fortify Delphinium, a place with a good harbor not far from the city of Chios itself. This location would allow the Athenians to cause the same kind of continuous damage to the quian countryside as the Spartan fort at Decalilla had to Attica. To make matters worse, since the Athenians now controlled the sea, the quians would not be able to import any necessities either. In fact, Thucydides says that they owned an exceptionally large number of slaves and treated them with particular harshness. So many of them were very willing to flee to the safety of Del