mpelled by its besiegers to capitulate; the conditions being that the
foreigners should be sold, and the Corinthians kept as prisoners of war,
till their fate should be otherwise decided.

After the engagement the Corcyraeans set up a trophy on Leukimme, a
headland of Corcyra, and slew all their captives except the Corinthians,
whom they kept as prisoners of war. Defeated at sea, the Corinthians and
their allies repaired home, and left the Corcyraeans masters of all
the sea about those parts. Sailing to Leucas, a Corinthian colony, they
ravaged their territory, and burnt Cyllene, the harbour of the Eleans,
because they had furnished ships and money to Corinth. For almost the
whole of the period that followed the battle they remained masters of
the sea, and the allies of Corinth were harassed by Corcyraean cruisers.
At last Corinth, roused by the sufferings of her allies, sent out ships
and troops in the fall of the summer, who formed an encampment at Actium
and about Chimerium, in Thesprotis, for the protection of Leucas and
the rest of the friendly cities. The Corcyraeans on their part formed a
similar station on Leukimme. Neither party made any movement, but they
remained confronting each other till the end of the summer, and winter
was at hand before either of them returned home.

Corinth, exasperated by the war with the Corcyraeans, spent the whole of
the year after the engagement and that succeeding it in building ships,
and in straining every nerve to form an efficient fleet; rowers being
drawn from Peloponnese and the rest of Hellas by the inducement of large
bounties. The Corcyraeans, alarmed at the news of their preparations,
being without a single ally in Hellas (for they had not enrolled
themselves either in the Athenian or in the Lacedaemonian confederacy),
decided to repair to Athens in order to enter into alliance and to
endeavour to procure support from her. Corinth also, hearing of their
intentions, sent an embassy to Athens to prevent the Corcyraean navy
being joined by the Athenian, and her prospect of ordering the war
according to her wishes being thus impeded. An assembly was convoked,
and the rival advocates appeared: the Corcyraeans spoke as follows:

"Athenians! when a people that have not rendered any important service
or support to their neighbours in times past, for which they might claim
to be repaid, appear before them as we now appear before you to solicit
their assistance, they may fairly