§3.2.1μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐσβολὴν τῶν Πελοποννησίων εὐθὺς Λέσβος πλὴν Μηθύμνης ἀπέστη ἀπ’ Ἀθηναίων, βουληθέντες μὲν καὶ πρὸ τοῦ πολέμου, ἀλλ’ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι οὐ προσεδέξαντο, ἀναγκασθέντες δὲ καὶ ταύτην τὴν ἀπόστασιν πρότερον ἢ διενοοῦντο ποιήσασθαι.
Immediately after the invasion of the Peloponnesians, all of Lesbos except Methymna revolted from the Athenians. They had wished to do so even before the war, but the Lacedaemonians had not received them; now, however, they were forced to make this revolt earlier than they had intended.
§3.2.2τῶν τε γὰρ λιμένων τὴν χῶσιν καὶ τειχῶν οἰκοδόμησιν καὶ νεῶν ποίησιν ἐπέμενον τελεσθῆναι, καὶ ὅσα ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου ἔδει ἀφικέσθαι, τοξότας τε καὶ σῖτον, καὶ ἃ μεταπεμπόμενοι ἦσαν.
For they were waiting for the filling up of their harbours, the building of walls, and the construction of ships to be completed, as well as for all that was to come from the Pontus, namely archers and corn, and other things for which they had sent.
§3.2.3Τενέδιοι γὰρ ὄντες αὐτοῖς διάφοροι καὶ Μηθυμναῖοι καὶ αὐτῶν Μυτιληναίων ἰδίᾳ ἄνδρες κατὰ στάσιν, πρόξενοι Ἀθηναίων, μηνυταὶ γίγνονται τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ὅτι ξυνοικίζουσί τε τὴν Λέσβον ἐς τὴν Μυτιλήνην βίᾳ καὶ τὴν παρασκευὴν ἅπασαν μετὰ Λακεδαιμονίων καὶ Βοιωτῶν ξυγγενῶν ὄντων ἐπὶ ἀποστάσει ἐπείγονται· καὶ εἰ μή τις προκαταλήψεται ἤδη, στερήσεσθαι αὐτοὺς Λέσβου.
For the Tenedians, who were at variance with them, and the Methymnaeans, and certain private individuals of the Mytilaeneans themselves who were Athenian proxenoi in a political faction, became informers to the Athenians, stating that the Mytilaeneans were forcing the whole of Lesbos into a union with Mytilene, and were rushing all their preparations for revolt in concert with the Lacedaemonians and their Boeotian kinsmen; and that unless someone forestalled them at once, the Athenians would lose Lesbos.