r design and seemed to affirm the truth
of their representations. The prisoners thus handed over were shut up
by the Corcyraeans in a large building, and afterwards taken out by
twenties and led past two lines of heavy infantry, one on each side,
being bound together, and beaten and stabbed by the men in the lines
whenever any saw pass a personal enemy; while men carrying whips went by
their side and hastened on the road those that walked too slowly.

As many as sixty men were taken out and killed in this way without the
knowledge of their friends in the building, who fancied they were merely
being moved from one prison to another. At last, however, someone opened
their eyes to the truth, upon which they called upon the Athenians to
kill them themselves, if such was their pleasure, and refused any longer
to go out of the building, and said they would do all they could to
prevent any one coming in. The Corcyraeans, not liking themselves to
force a passage by the doors, got up on the top of the building, and
breaking through the roof, threw down the tiles and let fly arrows at
them, from which the prisoners sheltered themselves as well as they
could. Most of their number, meanwhile, were engaged in dispatching
themselves by thrusting into their throats the arrows shot by the enemy,
and hanging themselves with the cords taken from some beds that happened
to be there, and with strips made from their clothing; adopting, in
short, every possible means of self-destruction, and also falling
victims to the missiles of their enemies on the roof. Night came on
while these horrors were enacting, and most of it had passed before they
were concluded. When it was day the Corcyraeans threw them in layers
upon wagons and carried them out of the city. All the women taken in
the stronghold were sold as slaves. In this way the Corcyraeans of the
mountain were destroyed by the commons; and so after terrible excesses
the party strife came to an end, at least as far as the period of this
war is concerned, for of one party there was practically nothing left.
Meanwhile the Athenians sailed off to Sicily, their primary destination,
and carried on the war with their allies there.

At the close of the summer, the Athenians at Naupactus and the
Acarnanians made an expedition against Anactorium, the Corinthian town
lying at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf, and took it by treachery;
and the Acarnanians themselves, sending settlers from all parts of