114.
After assigning a third part of the spoils to the Athenians, the Acarnanians divided
the1 remainder among their cities.
The spoils of the Athenians were captured on the voyage.
But three hundred panoplies which were allotted to Demosthenes he brought home with
him, and they are still preserved in the Athenian temples.
This good service of his enabled him to return to Athens with less
apprehension after his misfortune in Aetolia.2 The twenty Athenian ships sailed away to Naupactus.
[2]
The Acarnanians and Amphilochians, after the Athenians and Demosthenes had left them,
granted a truce to the Ambraciots and Peloponnesians who had fled to Salynthius and the
Agraeans; they were thus enabled to return home from Oeniadae, whither they had removed
from the country of Salynthius.
[3]
The Acarnanians and Amphilochians now made a treaty of alliance for one hundred years
with the Ambraciots, of which the terms were as follows:—'The Ambraciots shall
not be required to join the Acarnanians in making war on the Peloponnesians, nor the
Acarnanians to join the Ambraciots in making war on the Athenians.
But they shall aid in the defence of one another's territory.
The Ambraciots shall give up such places or hostages of the Amphilochians as they
possess3, and they shall not assist Anactorium' (which was hostile to the
Acarnanians)4.
[4]
Upon these terms they put an end to the war.
Soon afterwards the Corinthians sent a force of their own, consisting of three hundred
hoplites under the command of Xenocleidas the son of Euthycles, to guard Ambracia,
whither they made their way with some difficulty by land.
Such was the end of the Ambracian war.
1 Division of the spoils.
2 Return of Demosthenes and the Athenian fleet. Treaty of the Acarnanians and Amphilochians with the Ambraciots.
3 Cp. 3.107 init.
4 Cp. 1.55 init.
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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