55.
Upon these grounds both sides raised trophies and claimed the victory.
On their homeward voyage the Corinthians took by stratagem Anactorium, a town situated
at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf,
which they and the Corcyraeans held in common;
there
they settled colonists of their own, and returned to Corinth.
Of their Corcyraean captives eight hundred who were slaves they sold, but two hundred
and fifty they detained in prison, treating them with much consideration, in the hope
that, when they returned, they would win over Corcyra to the Corinthian interest1:
it so happened that the
majority of them were among the most influential men of the state.
[2]
Thus the war ended to the advantage of Corcyra, and the Athenian fleet returned home.
This was the first among the causes of the Peloponnesian War, the Corinthians alleging
that the Athenian fleet had taken part with the Corcyraeans and had fought against them
in a time of truce.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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