d and fled, and falling into pathless gullies and places that
they were unacquainted with, thus perished, the Messenian Chromon,
their guide, having also unfortunately been killed. A great many were
overtaken in the pursuit by the swift-footed and light-armed Aetolians,
and fell beneath their javelins; the greater number however missed their
road and rushed into the wood, which had no ways out, and which was soon
fired and burnt round them by the enemy. Indeed the Athenian army fell
victims to death in every form, and suffered all the vicissitudes of
flight; the survivors escaped with difficulty to the sea and Oeneon in
Locris, whence they had set out. Many of the allies were killed, and
about one hundred and twenty Athenian heavy infantry, not a man less,
and all in the prime of life. These were by far the best men in the city
of Athens that fell during this war. Among the slain was also Procles,
the colleague of Demosthenes. Meanwhile the Athenians took up their
dead under truce from the Aetolians, and retired to Naupactus, and from
thence went in their ships to Athens; Demosthenes staying behind in
Naupactus and in the neighbourhood, being afraid to face the Athenians
after the disaster.

About the same time the Athenians on the coast of Sicily sailed to
Locris, and in a descent which they made from the ships defeated the
Locrians who came against them, and took a fort upon the river Halex.

The same summer the Aetolians, who before the Athenian expedition had
sent an embassy to Corinth and Lacedaemon, composed of Tolophus, an
Ophionian, Boriades, an Eurytanian, and Tisander, an Apodotian, obtained
that an army should be sent them against Naupactus, which had invited
the Athenian invasion. The Lacedaemonians accordingly sent off towards
autumn three thousand heavy infantry of the allies, five hundred of whom
were from Heraclea, the newly founded city in Trachis, under the command
of Eurylochus, a Spartan, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaius, also
Spartans.

The army having assembled at Delphi, Eurylochus sent a herald to the
Ozolian Locrians; the road to Naupactus lying through their territory,
and he having besides conceived the idea of detaching them from Athens.
His chief abettors in Locris were the Amphissians, who were alarmed at
the hostility of the Phocians. These first gave hostages themselves, and
induced the rest to do the same for fear of the invading army; first,
their neighbours the Myonians, who hel