idians and Bottiaeans set up a trophy, took up their dead, and
dispersed to their several cities.

The same summer, not long after this, the Ambraciots and Chaonians,
being desirous of reducing the whole of Acarnania and detaching it
from Athens, persuaded the Lacedaemonians to equip a fleet from
their confederacy and send a thousand heavy infantry to Acarnania,
representing that, if a combined movement were made by land and sea,
the coast Acarnanians would be unable to march, and the conquest
of Zacynthus and Cephallenia easily following on the possession of
Acarnania, the cruise round Peloponnese would be no longer so convenient
for the Athenians. Besides which there was a hope of taking Naupactus.
The Lacedaemonians accordingly at once sent off a few vessels with
Cnemus, who was still high admiral, and the heavy infantry on board; and
sent round orders for the fleet to equip as quickly as possible and sail
to Leucas. The Corinthians were the most forward in the business; the
Ambraciots being a colony of theirs. While the ships from Corinth,
Sicyon, and the neighbourhood were getting ready, and those from Leucas,
Anactorium, and Ambracia, which had arrived before, were waiting for
them at Leucas, Cnemus and his thousand heavy infantry had run into the
gulf, giving the slip to Phormio, the commander of the Athenian squadron
stationed off Naupactus, and began at once to prepare for the land
expedition. The Hellenic troops with him consisted of the Ambraciots,
Leucadians, and Anactorians, and the thousand Peloponnesians with whom
he came; the barbarian of a thousand Chaonians, who, belonging to a
nation that has no king, were led by Photys and Nicanor, the two members
of the royal family to whom the chieftainship for that year had been
confided. With the Chaonians came also some Thesprotians, like them
without a king, some Molossians and Atintanians led by Sabylinthus, the
guardian of King Tharyps who was still a minor, and some Paravaeans,
under their king Oroedus, accompanied by a thousand Orestians, subjects
of King Antichus and placed by him under the command of Oroedus. There
were also a thousand Macedonians sent by Perdiccas without the knowledge
of the Athenians, but they arrived too late. With this force Cnemus set
out, without waiting for the fleet from Corinth. Passing through
the territory of Amphilochian Argos, and sacking the open village of
Limnaea, they advanced to Stratus the Acarnanian capital; this once