History of the Peloponnesian War

About the same time the Camarinaeans[*](cf. 6..1, 2.) also arrived with reinforcements, consisting of five hundred hoplites, three hundred javelin-men, and three hundred bowmen. The Geloans[*](cf . 6.67.2; 7.1.4.) also sent a squadron of five ships and four hundred javelin-men and two hundred cavalry.

For already almost the whole of Sicily—except the Agrigentines, who were neutral, but the rest without exception who had before been watching the course of events—had united with the Syracusans and was giving them aid against the Athenians. As for the Syracusans, after the disaster that happened to them in the country of the Sicels they put off their project of attacking the Athenians immediately;