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44.
Such was the strength of the first armament
that sailed over for the war.
The supplies for this force were carried by thirty ships of burden laden
with corn, which conveyed the bakers, stone-masons and carpenters, and the
tools for raising fortifications, accompanied by one hundred boats, like the
former pressed into the service, besides many other boats and ships of
burden which followed the armament voluntarily for purposes of trade; all of which now left Corcyra and struck across the Ionian sea together.
[2]
The whole force making land at the Iapygian promontory and Tarentum, with
more or less good fortune, coasted along the shores of Italy, the cities
shutting their markets and gates against them, and according them nothing
but water and liberty to anchor, and Tarentum and Locri not even that, until
they arrived at Rhegium, the extreme point of Italy.
[3]
Here at length they reunited, and not gaining admission within the walls
pitched a camp outside the city in the precinct of Artemis, where a market
was also provided for them, and drew their ships on shore and kept quiet.
Meanwhile they opened negotiations with the Rhegians, and called upon them
as Chalcidians to assist their Leontine kinsmen; to which the Rhegians replied that they would not side with either party,
but should await the decision of the rest of the Italiots, and do as they
did.
[4]
Upon this the Athenians now began to consider what would be the best action
to take in the affairs of Sicily, and meanwhile waited for the ships sent on
to come back from Egesta, in order to know whether there was really there
the money mentioned by the messengers at Athens.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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