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68.
About the same time towards the close of the
summer, the Ambraciot forces, with a number of barbarians that they had
raised, marched against the Amphilochian Argos and the rest of that country.
[2]
The origin of their enmity against the Argives was this.
[3]
This Argos and the rest of Amphilochia were colonized by Amphilochus, son
of Amphiaraus.
Dissatisfied with the state of affairs at home on his return thither after
the Trojan war, he built this city in the Ambracian gulf, and named it Argos
after his own country.
[4]
This was the largest town in Amphilochia, and its inhabitants the most
powerful.
[5]
Under the pressure of misfortune many generations afterwards, they called
in the Ambraciots, their neighbors on the Amphilochian border, to join their
colony; and it was by this union with the Ambraciots that they learnt their present
Hellenic speech, the rest of the Amphilochians being barbarians.
[6]
After a time the Ambraciots expelled the Argives and held the city
themselves.
[7]
Upon this the Amphilochians gave themselves over to the Acarnanians; and the two together called the Athenians, who sent them Phormio as general
and thirty ships; upon whose arrival they took Argos by storm, and made slaves of the
Ambraciots; and the Amphilochians and Acarnanians inhabited the town in common.
[8]
After this began the alliance between the Athenians and Acarnanians.
[9]
The enmity of the Ambraciots against the Argives thus commenced with the
enslavement of their citizens; and afterwards during the war they collected this armament among themselves
and the Chaonians, and other of the neighboring barbarians.
Arrived before Argos, they became masters of the country; but not being successful in their attacks upon the town, returned home and
dispersed among their different peoples.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, Ἑλλην-ίζω
- LSJ, ἀνδραποδ-ισμός
- LSJ, ἀνίστημι
- LSJ, ἀρέσκω
- LSJ, δίδωμι
- LSJ, ἔχθρ-α
- LSJ, ἐπάγω
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- LSJ, πλησι^όχωρος
- LSJ, προσπαρα-κα^λέω
- LSJ, θέρος
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