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[7] The war to possess Corcyra was practically at an end when the Athenian fleet sailed in with the generals Timotheus1 and Iphicrates. These, having arrived too late for the critical moment, accomplished nothing worth mentioning except that, falling in with some Sicilian triremes2 which Dionysius had dispatched under the command of Cissides and Crinippus to assist his allies the Lacedaemonians, they captured them with their crews, nine ships in all. By selling the captives as booty they collected more than sixty talents, with which they paid their forces.3

1 Timotheus is wrongly included. See Cambridge Ancient History, 6.77.

2 Perhaps the occasion mentioned in Book 16.57.3. Dionysius also sent presents for Delphi (cp. IG, 2(2). 103.9) which was burned (Dittenberger (3), 295) in 373.

3 See also Xen. Hell. 6.2.27-39 and Polyaenus 3.9.55.

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