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[3] Accordingly they made him their confederate, were transported by him to the island, and seized a stronghold by the sea which they called Arcadia.1 With this as their base and having the support of Timotheus they inflicted damage upon those in the city.2

1 Arcadia may have been the name of the fortress and Nellus, IG(2), 43.133-134, the name of the mountain on which it was constructed (see Dittenberger (3), 1.147, note 48).

2 See account in Xen. Hell. 6.2.2-3. Beloch, Griechische Geschichte (2), 3.1.156, places the attack after the formation of the peace in the late autumn of 375. Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.77, gives 374.

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