Page:Thucydides, translated into English Vol 2.djvu/316

3o8 THE SYRACUSANS AND THEIR ALLIES [vil among them to better himself at the time, followed the Athenians, who were lonians, being themselves Dorians, to fight against Dorians. The Mantineans and other Arcadians were mercenaries accustomed to attack any enemy who from time to time might be pointed out to them, and were now ready, if they were paid, to regard the Arcadians, who were in the service of the Corinthians-', as their enemies. The Cretans and Aetolians also served for hire ; the Cretans, who had once joined with the Rhodians in the foundation of Gela*^', came with reluct- ance ; nevertheless for pay they consented to fight against their own colonists. Some of the Acarnanians came to aid their Athenian allies, partly from motives of gain, but much more out of regard for Demosthenes " and good-will to Athens. All these dwelt on the eastern side of the Ionian Gulf. Of the Hellenes in Italy, the Thuriansand Metapontians, (S) Allies in Italy constrained by the necessities of a and Sicily, including revolutionary period, joined in the barbarians. enterprise; of the Hellenes in Sicily, the Naxians and Catanacans. Of Barbarians, there were the Egestaeans, who invited the expedition, and the greater part of the Sicels, and, besides native Sicilians, certain Tyrrhenians'! who had a quarrel with the Syracusans ; also lapygians'^, who served for hire. These were the nations who followed the Athenians. 58 The Syracusans, on the other hand, were assisted by Syracusan allies (i) ^'^^ Camarinaeans, who were their Inhabiianis of Sicily, "carest neighbours, and by the Gcloans, (1) //w« /A^ sou/bent, who dwelt next beyond them; and then (2) front the northern /r^^ «•!,« A • l- l distn^/^ ('or the Agrigentines, who came next, were neutral) by the still more distant Selinuntians. All these inhabited the region of Sicily which lies towards Libya. On the side looking towards • Cp. vii. 19 fin. »' Cp. i. 4 mod. "= Cp. iii. 105 foil. ; vii. 31 fin. •• Cp. vi. 103 mcd. « Cp. vii. 33 mcd.