an vessels, whose cheeks had been strengthened for this very
purpose. After an action of this even character, in which either party
could claim the victory (although the Athenians became masters of the
wrecks through the wind driving them out to sea, the Corinthians not
putting out again to meet them), the two combatants parted. No pursuit
took place, and no prisoners were made on either side; the Corinthians
and Peloponnesians who were fighting near the shore escaping with ease,
and none of the Athenian vessels having been sunk. The Athenians now
sailed back to Naupactus, and the Corinthians immediately set up a
trophy as victors, because they had disabled a greater number of the
enemy's ships. Moreover they held that they had not been worsted, for
the very same reason that their opponent held that he had not been
victorious; the Corinthians considering that they were conquerors,
if not decidedly conquered, and the Athenians thinking themselves
vanquished, because not decidedly victorious. However, when the
Peloponnesians sailed off and their land forces had dispersed, the
Athenians also set up a trophy as victors in Achaia, about two miles and
a quarter from Erineus, the Corinthian station.

This was the termination of the action at Naupactus. To return to
Demosthenes and Eurymedon: the Thurians having now got ready to join
in the expedition with seven hundred heavy infantry and three hundred
darters, the two generals ordered the ships to sail along the coast to
the Crotonian territory, and meanwhile held a review of all the land
forces upon the river Sybaris, and then led them through the Thurian
country. Arrived at the river Hylias, they here received a message
from the Crotonians, saying that they would not allow the army to pass
through their country; upon which the Athenians descended towards the
shore, and bivouacked near the sea and the mouth of the Hylias, where
the fleet also met them, and the next day embarked and sailed along the
coast touching at all the cities except Locri, until they came to Petra
in the Rhegian territory.

Meanwhile the Syracusans hearing of their approach resolved to make a
second attempt with their fleet and their other forces on shore, which
they had been collecting for this very purpose in order to do something
before their arrival. In addition to other improvements suggested by the
former sea-fight which they now adopted in the equipment of their navy,
they cut down their prows to