d also they made memorials of him then in
all the cities of their colonies, and the greatest in Carthage itself.

168. So far of the affairs of Sicily: and as for the Corcyreans, they
made answer to the envoys as follows, afterwards acting as I shall tell:
for the same men who had gone to Sicily endeavoured also to obtain the
help of these, saying the same things which they said to Gelon; and
the Corcyreans at the time engaged to send a force and to help in the
defence, declaring that they must not permit Hellas to be ruined without
an effort on their part, for if it should suffer disaster, they would
be reduced to subjection from the very first day; but they must give
assistance so far as lay in their power. Thus speciously they made
reply; but when the time came to send help, they manned sixty ships,
having other intentions in their minds, and after making much difficulty
they put out to sea and reached Peloponnese; and then near Pylos and
Tainaron in the land of the Lacedemonians they kept their ships at
anchor, waiting, as Gelon did, to see how the war would turn out: for
they did not expect that the Hellenes would overcome, but thought that
the Persian would gain the victory over them with ease and be ruler of
all Hellas. Accordingly they were acting of set purpose, in order that
they might be able to say to the Persian some such words as these: "O
king, when the Hellenes endeavoured to obtain our help for this war,
we, who have a power which is not the smallest of all, and could have
supplied a contingent of ships in number not the smallest, but after the
Athenians the largest, did not choose to oppose thee or to do anything
which was not to thy mind." By speaking thus they hoped that they would
obtain some advantage over the rest, and so it would have happened, as
I am of opinion: while they had for the Hellenes an excuse ready made,
that namely of which they actually made use: for when the Hellenes
reproached them because they did not come to help, they said that they
had manned sixty triremes, but had not been able to get past Malea
owing to the Etesian Winds; therefore it was that they had not come to
Salamis, nor was it by any want of courage on their part that they had
been left of the sea-fight.

169. These then evaded the request of the Hellenes thus: but the
Cretans, when those of the Hellenes who had been appointed to deal with
these endeavoured to obtain their help, did thus, that is to say, they
joine