History of the Peloponnesian War

All these were within the boundary of the Ionian Gulf;

but of the Italiots the Thurians and Metapontians took part in the expedition, being reduced at this time to such straits by party crises that they could not do otherwise; and of the Siceliots the Naxians and the Catanaeans. Of Barbarians there were the Egestaeans, who had brought the Athenians to Sicily, and the greater part of the Sicels; and of those outside of Sicily a certain number of Tyrrhenians,[*](cf. 6.88.6, 6.103.2.) who had a quarrel with the Syracusans, and some Iapygian mercenaries.[*](cf. 7.33.4.) So many were the peoples who took part in the struggle on the side of the Athenians.

The Syracusans, on the other hand, were aided by the Camarinaeans,[*](cf. 6.67.2; 7.33.1.) who were their next neighbours, and the Geloans, who lived next to the Camarinaeans;