d the most difficult of the
passes, and after them the Ipnians, Messapians, Tritaeans, Chalaeans,
Tolophonians, Hessians, and Oeanthians, all of whom joined in the
expedition; the Olpaeans contenting themselves with giving hostages,
without accompanying the invasion; and the Hyaeans refusing to do
either, until the capture of Polis, one of their villages.

His preparations completed, Eurylochus lodged the hostages in Kytinium,
in Doris, and advanced upon Naupactus through the country of the
Locrians, taking upon his way Oeneon and Eupalium, two of their towns
that refused to join him. Arrived in the Naupactian territory, and
having been now joined by the Aetolians, the army laid waste the land
and took the suburb of the town, which was unfortified; and after this
Molycrium also, a Corinthian colony subject to Athens. Meanwhile the
Athenian Demosthenes, who since the affair in Aetolia had remained near
Naupactus, having had notice of the army and fearing for the town, went
and persuaded the Acarnanians, although not without difficulty because
of his departure from Leucas, to go to the relief of Naupactus. They
accordingly sent with him on board his ships a thousand heavy infantry,
who threw themselves into the place and saved it; the extent of its
wall and the small number of its defenders otherwise placing it in the
greatest danger. Meanwhile Eurylochus and his companions, finding that
this force had entered and that it was impossible to storm the town,
withdrew, not to Peloponnese, but to the country once called Aeolis, and
now Calydon and Pleuron, and to the places in that neighbourhood, and
Proschium in Aetolia; the Ambraciots having come and urged them to
combine with them in attacking Amphilochian Argos and the rest of
Amphilochia and Acarnania; affirming that the conquest of these
countries would bring all the continent into alliance with Lacedaemon.
To this Eurylochus consented, and dismissing the Aetolians, now remained
quiet with his army in those parts, until the time should come for the
Ambraciots to take the field, and for him to join them before Argos.

Summer was now over. The winter ensuing, the Athenians in Sicily with
their Hellenic allies, and such of the Sicel subjects or allies of
Syracuse as had revolted from her and joined their army, marched
against the Sicel town Inessa, the acropolis of which was held by
the Syracusans, and after attacking it without being able to take it,
retired. In the retre