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[5] Timotheus succeeded him as admiral, sailed to Cephallenia, won over the cities there, and likewise persuaded the cities of Acarnania to come over to Athens. After he had made a friend of Alcetas, king of the Molossians, and, speaking generally, had won over the areas belonging to the cities of those regions, he defeated the Lacedaemonians in a naval battle off Leucas.1

1 Xen. Hell. 5.4.62-66 gives a fuller account of Timotheus' activities. See also Isoc. 15.109; Nepos Timotheus 2.1; Polyaenus 3.10.4-17 (passim); Frontinus Strat. 2.5.47. The year is 375.

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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