What I say will be made clear by the present case. The above authors confess that among the results of the separate actions in the battle of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lade&groupId=663&placeId=1213">Lade</a> were the following. Two Rhodian quinqueremes with their complements fell into the hands of the enemy,
and when one ship after the battle raised her jury mast as she had been rammed and was going down, many of those near her followed her example and retreated to the open sea,
upon which the admiral, now left with only a few ships, was compelled to do likewise.
The fleet, favoured by the wind, reached the coast of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Myndus&groupId=780&placeId=1414">Myndus</a> and anchored there, and next day put to sea again and crossed to Cos.
Meanwhile the enemy took the quinqueremes in town and anchoring off <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Lade&groupId=663&placeId=1213">Lade</a>, spent night near their own camp.
They say also that the Milesians, in great alarm at what had happened, not only voted a crown to Philip for his brilliant attack, but another to Heracleides.
After telling us all these things, which obviously are symptoms of defeat, they nevertheless declare that the Rhodians were victorious both in the particular engagements and generally,
and this in spite of the fact that the dispatch sent home by the admiral at the very time to the Rhodian senate and prytaneis, which is still preserved in the prytaneum at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a>, does not confirm the pronouncements of Antisthenes and Zeno, but my own.
Walbank Commentary