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Epidamnus (Albania) (search for this): book 12, chapter 57
While these events were taking place, in Cercyra bitter civil strife and
contentiousness arose for the following reasons. In the fighting about EpidamnusCp. chap.
31. many Cercyraeans had been taken prisoner and cast into the state prison, and these
men promised the Corinthians that, if the Corinthians set them free, they would hand Cercyra
over to them. The Corinthians gladly agreed to the proposals,
and the Cercyraeans, after going through the pretence of paying a ransom, were released on bail
of a considerable sum of talents furnished by the proxeni.Proxeni were citizens of one city chosen by another city to look after the interests of its
citizens who were residing, sojourning, or doing business there; they were a sort of consul in
the modern sense.
Faithful to their promises the Cercyraeans, as soon as they
had returned to their native land, arrested and put to death the men who had always been
popular leaders and had acted