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 47-5o] NIGHT CLOSED UPON THEIR SUFFERINGS 37 themselves. Out of the building they refused to stir, and threatened that into it, if they could help, no one should enter. The Corcyracan populace had not the least inten- tion of forcing a way in by the door, but they got upon the roof and, making an opening, threw tiles and shot arrows down from above. The prisoners sought to shelter them- selves as they best could. Most of them at the same time put an end to their own lives ; some thrust into their throats arrows which were shot at them, others strangled themselves with cords taken from beds which they found in the place, or with strips which they tore from their own garments. This went on during the greater part of the night, which had closed upon their sufTerings, until in one way or another, either by their own hand or by missiles hurled from above, they all perished. At daybreak the Corcyraeans flung the dead bodies cross-wise on waggons and carried them out of the city. The women who were taken in the fortress on Mount Istone were reduced to slavery. Thus the Corcyraeans in the mountain were destroyed by the people, and, at least while the Pelopon- nesian war lasted, there was an end of the great sedition; for there was nothing left of the other party worth men- tioning. The Athenians then sailed for Sicily, their original destination ■■', and there fought in concert with their allies. At the end of the summer the Athenian forces in 49 Naupactus and some Acarnanians Anadommi is occu- made an expedition against Anacto- pied by the Acarnanians. rium, a Corinthian town at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf, which was betrayed to them. The Acarnanians expelled the Corinthians, and sent a colony of their own, taken from the whole nation, to occupy the place. So the summer ended. During the ensuing winter Aristides the son of Arch- 50 ippus, one of the commanders of the Athenian vessels which collected tribute from the allies, captured, at Eion upon the Strymon, Artaphernes a Persian, who was on
 * Cp. iv. 4 fin. ; iv. 46 init.