History of the Peloponnesian War

After this Demosthenes arrived at Zacynthus and Cephallenia, where he took on board some hoplites and sent to the Messenians of Naupactus for others; he then crossed over to the opposite mainland of Acarnania,[*](The scene of his campaign in the summer of 426 B. C. (iii. 94 ff.)) to the ports of Alyzeia and Anactorium, which the Athenians held.

While he was attending to these matters, he was met by Eurymedon, who was returning from Sicily, whither he had been sent during the preceding winter[*](cf. 7.16.2.) with the money for the army; and he reported, among other things, that when he was already on his return voyage he had heard of the capture of Plemmyrium by the Syracusans.