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31.
While Mycalessus thus experienced a calamity,
for its extent, as lamentable as any that happened in the war, Demosthenes,
whom we left sailing to Corcyra, after the building of the fort in Laconia,
found a merchantman lying at Rhea in Elis, in which the Corinthian heavy
infantry were to cross to Sicily.
The ship he destroyed, but the men escaped, and subsequently got another in
which they pursued their voyage.
[2]
After this, arriving at Zacynthus and Cephallenia, he took a body of heavy
infantry on board, and sending for some of the Messenians from Naupactus,
crossed over to the opposite coast of Acarnania, to Alyzia, and to
Anactorium which was held by the Athenians.
[3]
While he was in these parts he was met by Eurymedon returning from Sicily,
where he had been sent, as has been mentioned, during the winter, with the
money for the army, who told him the news, and also that he had heard, while
at sea, that the Syracusans had taken Plemmyrium.
[4]
Here, also, Conon came to them, the commander at Naupactus, with news that
the twenty-five Corinthian ships stationed opposite to him, far from giving
over the war, were meditating an engagement; and he therefore begged them to send him some ships, as his own eighteen
were not a match for the enemy's twenty-five.
[5]
Demosthenes and Eurymedon, accordingly, sent ten of their best sailors with
Conon to reinforce the squadron at Naupactus, and meanwhile prepared for the
muster of their forces; Eurymedon, who was now the colleague of Demosthenes, and had turned back in
consequence of his appointment, sailing to Corcyra to tell them to man
fifteen ships and to enlist heavy infantry; while Demosthenes raised slingers and darters from the parts about
Acarnania.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XVIII
- Gilbert A. Davies, Commentary on Demosthenes: Philippics I, II, III, 2
- Cross-references to this page
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ALY´ZIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ANACTO´RIUM
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter VI
- Smith's Bio, Conon
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