served for hire, and the Cretans
who had joined the Rhodians in founding Gela, thus came to consent to
fight for pay against, instead of for, their colonists. There were also
some Acarnanians paid to serve, although they came chiefly for love of
Demosthenes and out of goodwill to the Athenians whose allies they
were. These all lived on the Hellenic side of the Ionian Gulf. Of the
Italiots, there were the Thurians and Metapontines, dragged into
the quarrel by the stern necessities of a time of revolution; of the
Siceliots, the Naxians and the Catanians; and of the barbarians, the
Egestaeans, who called in the Athenians, most of the Sicels, and outside
Sicily some Tyrrhenian enemies of Syracuse and Iapygian mercenaries.

Such were the peoples serving with the Athenians. Against these the
Syracusans had the Camarinaeans their neighbours, the Geloans who
live next to them; then passing over the neutral Agrigentines, the
Selinuntines settled on the farther side of the island. These inhabit
the part of Sicily looking towards Libya; the Himeraeans came from the
side towards the Tyrrhenian Sea, being the only Hellenic inhabitants in
that quarter, and the only people that came from thence to the aid of
the Syracusans. Of the Hellenes in Sicily the above peoples joined in
the war, all Dorians and independent, and of the barbarians the Sicels
only, that is to say, such as did not go over to the Athenians. Of the
Hellenes outside Sicily there were the Lacedaemonians, who provided a
Spartan to take the command, and a force of Neodamodes or Freedmen, and
of Helots; the Corinthians, who alone joined with naval and land forces,
with their Leucadian and Ambraciot kinsmen; some mercenaries sent by
Corinth from Arcadia; some Sicyonians forced to serve, and from outside
Peloponnese the Boeotians. In comparison, however, with these foreign
auxiliaries, the great Siceliot cities furnished more in every
department--numbers of heavy infantry, ships, and horses, and an immense
multitude besides having been brought together; while in comparison,
again, one may say, with all the rest put together, more was provided by
the Syracusans themselves, both from the greatness of the city and from
the fact that they were in the greatest danger.

Such were the auxiliaries brought together on either side, all of which
had by this time joined, neither party experiencing any subsequent
accession. It was no wonder, therefore, if the Syracusans and their
alli