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 256 DEMOSTHENES STILL AT NAUPACTUS [ill Chalaeans, Tolophonians, Hessians, and Oeantheans; all these tribes also joined the expedition. The Olpaeans gave hostages but did not join ; the Hyaeans would not give hostages until the Lacedaemonians had taken one of their villages, called Polls. 102 When everything was ready, and Eurylochus had de- r, n -.J., posited the hostages at Cytinium of the Detnosthenes with the ^. helpofiheAcanianians Dorians, he marched with his army saves Nanpacius. The against Naupactus, through the territory Laccdaanonians retiic, r ^i t • r x^' ^ 1, , . . n .1 of the Locrians. On his march he and tn concert ivith the Ainbraciots project an took Oencon * and Eupalium ^, two attack on the Atnphi- Locrian towns which refused to come hchian Argos. ^^ ^^^^^^ ^vQn they had arrived in the territory of Naupactus and the Aetolians had at length joined them, they devastated the country, and after taking the unwalled suburbs of the town marched against Moly- crium, a colony of the Corinthians subject to Athens, which they captured. But Demosthenes the Athenian, who after his misfortune in Aetolia was still in the neigh- bourhood of Naupactus, having previous intelligence, and fearing for the town, went and persuaded the Acarnanians, much against their will — for they had not forgotten his with- drawal from Leucas — to assist Naupactus. So they sent with him on board the Athenian ships ° a thousand hop- lites ; these got in and saved the place, which was in danger of having to capitulate, ovv'ing to the extent of the wall and the paucity of its defenders. Eurylochus and his soldiers, when they saw that the garrison had been reinforced, and that there was no possibility of taking the city by storm, instead of going back to Peloponnesus, retired into the country of Aeolis, which is now called by the names of the towns Calydon and Pleuron, and to other places in the neighbourhood ; also to Proschium in Aetolia. For the Ambraciots sent and persuaded them to take part in an attack on the Amphilochian Argos and the rest of Amphi- Cp. iii. 95 fin. ^ Cp. iii. g6 med. " Cp. iii. 105 fin