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These, then, were the reasons why the Athenians voted to give aid to the Leontines, and they sent twenty ships to Sicily and as generals Laches and Charoeades. These sailed to Rhegium, where they added to their force twenty ships from the Rhegians and the other Chalcidian colonists. Making Rhegium their base they first of all overran the islands of the Liparaeans1 because they were allies of the Syracusans, and after this they sailed to Locri,2 where they captured five ships of the Locrians, and then laid siege to the stronghold of Mylae.3

1 The group of small volcanic islands west of the toe of Italy; cp. Book 5.7.

2 Epizephyrian Locris on the east shore of the toe of Italy.

3 On the north coast of Sicily west of Messene.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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