The Battle of the Hellespont

Constantine was able to immediately pursue his rival, because it appears that he had been wounded in the previous day's fighting. In contrast to his line of retreat following the battle of martia, this time, lycinius headed directly to ba antium without stopping. After designating some of his troops to as byzantium's defense force, Lycinius began ferrying the rest of his men across the bosphorus with all haste. Better to just cross over to bithynia now and not worry about getting trapped in byzantIUM. And it was a good i he didn't take chances, because the coming battle of the hellespont was not going