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25.
In this strait the Syracusans and their
allies were compelled to engage, late in the day, about the passage of a
boat, putting out with rather more than thirty ships against sixteen
Athenian and eight Rhegian vessels.
[2]
Defeated by the Athenians they hastily set off, each for himself, to their
own stations at Messina and Rhegium, with the loss of one ship; night coming on before the battle was finished.
[3]
After this the Locrians retired from the Rhegian territory, and the ships
of the Syracusans and their allies united and came to anchor at Cape Pelorus
in the territory of Messina, where their land forces joined them.
[4]
Here the Athenians and Rhegians sailed up, and seeing the ships unmanned,
made an attack, in which they in their turn lost one vessel, which was
caught by a grappling iron, the crew saving themselves by swimming.
[5]
After this the Syracusans got on board their ships, and while they were
being towed along shore to Messina, were again attacked by the Athenians,
but suddenly got out to sea and became the assailants, and caused them to
lose another vessel.
[6]
After thus holding their own in the voyage along shore and in the
engagement as above described, the Syracusans sailed on into the harbour of
Messina.
[7]
Meanwhile the Athenians, having received
warning that Camarina was about to be betrayed to the Syracusans by Archias
and his party, sailed thither; and the Messinese took this opportunity to attack by sea and land with all
their forces their Chalcidian neighbor, Naxos.
[8]
The first day they forced the Naxians to keep their walls, and laid waste
their country; the next they sailed round with their ships, and laid waste their land on
the river Akesines, while their land forces menaced the city.
[9]
Meanwhile the Sicels came down from the high country in great numbers, to
aid against the Messinese; and the Naxians, elated at the sight, and animated by a belief that the
Leontines and their other Hellenic allies were coming to their support,
suddenly sallied out from the town, and attacked and routed the Messinese,
killing more than a thousand of them; while the remainder suffered severely in their retreat home, being attacked
by the barbarians on the road, and most of them cut off.
[10]
The ships put in to Messina, and afterwards dispersed for their different
homes.
The Leontines and their allies, with the Athenians, upon this at once
turned their arms against the now weakened Messina, and attacked, the
Athenians with their ships on the side of the harbour, and the land forces
on that of the town.
[11]
The Messinese, however, sailing out with Demoteles and some Locrians who
had been left to garrison the city after the disaster, suddenly attacked and
routed most of the Leontine army, killing a great number; upon seeing which the Athenians landed from their ships, and falling on the
Messinese in disorder chased them back into the town, and setting up a
trophy retired to Rhegium.
[12]
After this the Hellenes in Sicily continued to make war on each other by
land, without the Athenians.
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