ians that they had raised, marched
against the Amphilochian Argos and the rest of that country. The origin
of their enmity against the Argives was this. This Argos and the rest
of Amphilochia were colonized by Amphilochus, son of Amphiaraus.
Dissatisfied with the state of affairs at home on his return thither
after the Trojan War, he built this city in the Ambracian Gulf, and
named it Argos after his own country. This was the largest town in
Amphilochia, and its inhabitants the most powerful. Under the
pressure of misfortune many generations afterwards, they called in the
Ambraciots, their neighbours on the Amphilochian border, to join their
colony; and it was by this union with the Ambraciots that they learnt
their present Hellenic speech, the rest of the Amphilochians being
barbarians. After a time the Ambraciots expelled the Argives and held
the city themselves. Upon this the Amphilochians gave themselves over
to the Acarnanians; and the two together called the Athenians, who sent
them Phormio as general and thirty ships; upon whose arrival they took
Argos by storm, and made slaves of the Ambraciots; and the Amphilochians
and Acarnanians inhabited the town in common. After this began the
alliance between the Athenians and Acarnanians. The enmity of the
Ambraciots against the Argives thus commenced with the enslavement
of their citizens; and afterwards during the war they collected
this armament among themselves and the Chaonians, and other of the
neighbouring barbarians. Arrived before Argos, they became masters of
the country; but not being successful in their attacks upon the town,
returned home and dispersed among their different peoples.

Such were the events of the summer. The ensuing winter the Athenians
sent twenty ships round Peloponnese, under the command of Phormio, who
stationed himself at Naupactus and kept watch against any one sailing in
or out of Corinth and the Crissaean Gulf. Six others went to Caria and
Lycia under Melesander, to collect tribute in those parts, and also to
prevent the Peloponnesian privateers from taking up their station in
those waters and molesting the passage of the merchantmen from Phaselis
and Phoenicia and the adjoining continent. However, Melesander, going up
the country into Lycia with a force of Athenians from the ships and the
allies, was defeated and killed in battle, with the loss of a number of
his troops.

The same winter the Potidaeans at length found themselves no l