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138 .38 HISTORY OF GREECE. future. Let them all feel that they were neighbors, inhabitants of the same island, and called by the common name of Sikeliots ; and let them all with one accord repel the intrusion of aliens in their affairs, whether as open assailants or as treacherous mediators. 1 This harangue from Hermokrates, and the earnest disposi- tions of Syracuse for peace, found general sympathy among the Sicilian cities, Ionic as well as Doric. All of them doubtless suffered by the war, and the Ionic cities, who had solicited the intervention of the Athenians as protectors against Syracuse, conceived from the evident uneasiness of the latter a fair assur- ance of her pacific demeanor for the future. Accordingly, the peace was accepted by all the belligerent parties, each retaining what they possessed, except that the Syracusans agreed to cede Morgantine to Kamarina, on receipt of a fixed sum of money.' 2 1 See the speech of Hennoknxtcs, Thucyd. iv, 59-64. One expression in this speech indicates that it was composed by Thucydides many years after its proper date, subsequently to the great expedition of the Athenians against Syracuse in 415 B.C. ; though I doubt not that Thucydides collected the memoranda for it at the time. Hermokrates says : " The Athenians are now near us with a few ships, lying in wait for our blunders," ol 6vva.fj.iv e^ovrej- peyiimiv ruv ''E.TJ.rj- vuv Taf re tifiapTiae ijfitiv Typovaiv, ohiyaif v a veil irapovTEf, etc (iv, 60). Now the fleet under the command of Eurymedon and his colleagues at Rhegium included all or most of the ships which had acted at Sphakteria and Korkyra, together with those which had been previously at the strait of Messina under Pythodorus. It could not have been less than fifty sail, and may possibly have been sixty sail. It is hardly conceivable that any Greek, speaking in the early spring of 424 B.C., should have alluded to this as a small fleet : assuredly, Hermokrates would not thus allude to it, since it was for the interest of his argument to exaggerate rather than extenuate, the formidable manifestations of Athens. But Thucydides, composing the speech after the great Athenian expedi- tion of 415 B.C., so much more numerous and commanding in every respect, might not unnaturally represent the fleet of Eurymedon as " a few ships," tvhen he tacitly compared the two. This is the only way that I know, of explaining such an expression. The Scholiast observes that some of the copies in his time omitted the w ords 6/Uyatf vavai : probably they noticed the contradiction which I have remarK 3d ; and the passage may certainly be construed without those words. Fxcerpta recently published by Maii, from the Cod. Vatic ) that Timsem
 * Tl ucyd. iv, 65. "We learn from Polybius (Fragm. xii, 22, 23, one of the