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86.
At the close of the same summer the Athenians
sent twenty ships under the command of Laches, son of Melanopus, and
Charceades, son of Euphiletus, to Sicily,
[2]
where the Syracusans and Leontines were at war.
The Syracusans had for allies all the Dorian cities except
Camarina—these had been included in the Lacedaemonian confederacy
from the commencement of the war, though they had not taken any active part
in it—the Leontines had Camarina and the Chalcidian cities.
In Italy the Locrians were for the Syracusans, the Rhegians for their
Leontine kinsmen.
[3]
The allies of the Leontines now sent to Athens and appealed to their
ancient alliance and to their Ionian origin, to persuade the Athenians to
send them a fleet, as the Syracusans were blockading them by land and sea.
[4]
The Athenians sent it upon the plea of their common descent, but in reality
to prevent the exportation of Sicilian corn to Peloponnese and to test the
possibility of bringing Sicily into subjection.
[5]
Accordingly they established themselves at Rhegium in Italy, and from
thence carried on the war in concert with their allies.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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