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 42-44] THE ATHENIANS ARRIVE AT RHEGIUM 213 but five hundred came from Argos, besides two hundred and fifty Mantinean and other mercenaries. The archers were in all four hundred and eighty, of whom eighty were Cretans. There were seven hundred Rhodian shngers, a hundred and twenty h'ght-armed Megarians who were exiles ='; and one horse transport which conveyed thirty horsemen and horses. Such were the forces with which the first expedition 44 crossed the sea. For the transport of, „ , , , ... The fleet tnchided provisions thnty merchant-ships, which /;„y/^, ,„,ychant-ships also conveyed bakers, masons, car- ami a Immhed small penters, and tools such as are required ^•^•^''*- Amvmg at
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in sieges, were included in the arma- y,^^;^ admittance into ment. It was likewise attended by the city, but are supplied a hundred small vessels; these, as ""''-^ provisions and ,,, , , allowed to anchor. well as the merchant-vessels, were pressed into the service. Other merchant-vessels and lesser craft in great numbers followed of their own accord for purposes of trade. The whole fleet now struck across the Ionian sea from Corcyra. They arrived at the pro- montory of lapygia and at Tarentum, each ship taking its own course, and passed along the coast of Italy. The Italian .cities did not admit them within their walls, or open a market to them, but allowed them water and anchorage ; Tarentum and Locri refused even these. At length they reached Rhegium, the extreme point of Italy, where the fleet reunited. As they were not received within the walls they encamped outside the city at the temple of Artemis ; there they were provided by the inhabitants with a market, and drawing up their ships on shore they took a rest. They held a conference with the Rhegians, and pressed them, being Chalcidians them- selves, to aid their Chalcidian kinsmen the Leontines. But the Rhegians replied that they would be neutral, and would only act in accordance with the decision of all • Cp. iv. 74.