History of the Peloponnesian War

And at the same time the island appeared to them to lie well in the line of voyage along shore to Italy and Sicily.

With such a view of the case the Athenians admitted the Corcyraeans into alliance; and when the Corinthians had departed, they sent ten ships to assist them.

Tile commanders of them were Lacedaemonius, the son of Cimon, Diotimus, the son of Strombichus, and Proteas, the son of Epiclees.