33.
During the following winter, Evarchus the Acarnanian, desiring to be restored1 to Astacus, persuaded the Corinthians to sail with forty ships and fifteen
hundred hoplites and reinstate him, he himself hiring some mercenaries.
Of this expedition Euphamidas the son of Aristonymus, Timoxenus the son of Timocrates,
and Eumachus the son of Chrysis, were the commanders.
[2]
They sailed to Astacus, and restored Evarchus; they then tried to gain over certain
other towns on the coast of Acarnania; but, failing in their attempt, they proceeded
homewards.
[3]
Touching at Cephallenia on their voyage, they made a descent on the country of the
Cranians, but being entrapped by means of a pretended agreement, and then unexpectedly
attacked, they lost a part of their forces; at length, not without a severe struggle,
they put to sea again and returned home.
1 The Corinthians restore the tyrant Evarchs to Astacus. On their return they attack Cephallenia, but are defeated.
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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