History of the Peloponnesian War

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;

then, since the Agrigentines were neutral,[*](cf. 7.33.2.) by the Selinuntians,[*](cf. 6.6.2, 6..1, 6.67.2.) who were settled in the country beyond. All these occupied that part of Sicily which faces Libya, but the Himeraeans[*](cf. 7.1.2; 7.1.3.) came from the part which faces the Tyrrhenian Sea, where they were the only Hellenic inhabitants; and they alone from that region came to the aid of the Syracusans.

Such were the Hellenic peoples in Sicily, all Dorians and independent, that fought on their side; but of Barbarians, the Sicels alone—those, that is, that had not gone over to the side of the Athenians. Of the Hellenes outside of Sicily there were the Lacedaemonians, who furnished a Spartan as commander-in-chief, but no troops except Neodamodes[*](See on 7.19.3.) and Helots; the Corinthians, who alone were at hand with both a fleet and a land-force; the Leucadians and Ambraciots, both induced by the tie of kinship;[*](Syracuse (6.3.2), Leucas (1.30.2) and Ambracia (2.80.3) were sister states having Corinth as μητρόπολις.) from Arcadia[*](cf. 7.19.4.) mercenaries sent by the Corinthians; the Sicyonians, who served under compulsion;[*](Because since 418 B.C. an oligarchic constitution had been forced upon them (5.81.2).) and, from outside the Peloponnesus, the Boeotians.[*](cf. 7.19.3.)