nts which they
found empty, and plundered the stuff. So in this quarter the Corinthians
and their allies were defeated, and the Corcyraeans were victorious.
But where the Corinthians themselves were, on the left, they gained
a decided success; the scanty forces of the Corcyraeans being further
weakened by the want of the twenty ships absent on the pursuit. Seeing
the Corcyraeans hard pressed, the Athenians began at length to assist
them more unequivocally. At first, it is true, they refrained from
charging any ships; but when the rout was becoming patent, and the
Corinthians were pressing on, the time at last came when every one set
to, and all distinction was laid aside, and it came to this point, that
the Corinthians and Athenians raised their hands against each other.

After the rout, the Corinthians, instead of employing themselves in
lashing fast and hauling after them the hulls of the vessels which they
had disabled, turned their attention to the men, whom they butchered as
they sailed through, not caring so much to make prisoners. Some even of
their own friends were slain by them, by mistake, in their ignorance of
the defeat of the right wing For the number of the ships on both sides,
and the distance to which they covered the sea, made it difficult, after
they had once joined, to distinguish between the conquering and the
conquered; this battle proving far greater than any before it, any at
least between Hellenes, for the number of vessels engaged. After the
Corinthians had chased the Corcyraeans to the land, they turned to the
wrecks and their dead, most of whom they succeeded in getting hold of
and conveying to Sybota, the rendezvous of the land forces furnished by
their barbarian allies. Sybota, it must be known, is a desert harbour of
Thesprotis. This task over, they mustered anew, and sailed against the
Corcyraeans, who on their part advanced to meet them with all their
ships that were fit for service and remaining to them, accompanied by
the Athenian vessels, fearing that they might attempt a landing in their
territory. It was by this time getting late, and the paean had been sung
for the attack, when the Corinthians suddenly began to back water. They
had observed twenty Athenian ships sailing up, which had been sent out
afterwards to reinforce the ten vessels by the Athenians, who feared, as
it turned out justly, the defeat of the Corcyraeans and the inability
of their handful of ships to protect them. The