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266 TERMS OF PEACE [ill of his enabled him to return to Athens with less appre- Rdurn of Demo- hension after his misfortune in Aetolia. sthcnes and the Athen- 7^6 twenty Athenian ships sailed away tan fleet. Treaty of the , -kt ^ t-i a • j AearnamansandAm. toNaupactus. The Acarnanians and philochians with the Amphilochians, after the Athenians and Ambraaots. 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. 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 Pelopon- nesians, 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 possess «■, and they shall not assist Anactorium ' (which was hostile to the Acarnanians) . 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. "5 During the same winter the Athenian fleet in Sicily, ^, . , . sailing to Himera, made a descent The Athenians re- ' .it solve to take a more upo^ the country in concert with the active part in the affairs Sicels, who had invaded the extreme of Sicily. They send border of the Himeraeans from the in- out Pythodorus. . 1 i 1 a 1 • tenor ; they also attacked the Aeolian Isles. Returning to Rhegium, they found that Pythodorus son of Isolochus, one of the Athenian generals, had super- seded Laches in the command of the fleet. The allies of » Cp. iii. 107 init. Cp. i. 55 ink.