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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt:...up the west coast of Greece, he first touched at Kephallenia5, whose town Pronni became a member of the Confederacy. The other towns of the island were brought over, but had probably to be held by garrisons6. From Kephallenia most likely he sailed direct to Korkyra, and there, after but slight think that Front. Strat. I. 4. 14 is definite enough to warrant the supposition that Chabrias made an attack on Samos in the course of this expedition (Judeich, Kleinas. Stud. p. 270, n. 2). 1 Isokr. Antid. 109 says that he had 50. 2 Hell. v. 4. 62 ft". Cf. Diod. xv. 36. 5 ft. 3 For his landing there, see Nepos, Timoth. 2: idem classi praefectus circumvehens Peloponnesum, Laconicen populutus, classem eorum fugavit, Corcyram sub imperium Atheniensium redegit sociosque dein adiunxit Epirotas, Athamanas, Chaonas omnesque eas gentes, quae mare illud adiacent. 4 KepKvpato" 6 drjfxos stands first on the side of C.I.A. n. 17. See Hock, Die Bezieh. Kerkyras, p. 4 ff. 6 What follows seems to me the most probable order of events; the succession of names on the stone is not rigidly adhered to. 6 Diod. xv. 36. Contrast irpoffrjyayero with (ireiaev. resistance, restored the democratic party1. He acted, however, with the greatest moderation towards the oligarchs, and inflicted political banishment upon none of them. This conduct bore fruit in a series of fresh accessions to the Athenian Confederacy2. The Akarnanians, whose name is on the Aristoteles inscription, entered, as did Alketas king of the Molossi, together with his son Neoptolemos3. We possess two inscriptions which throw further light upon these events. In August--September, 375 B.C.4, ambassadors from Korkyra5, Akarnania, and Kephallenia were present in Athens with the request that the names of their respective...