History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides, Vol. 1-4. Smith, Charles Foster, translator. London and Cambridge, MA: Heinemann and Harvard University Press, 1919-1923.

But when the envoys arrived, the Athenians arrested them as revolutionists, and deposited them in Aegina,

Btogether with such of the fugitives as they had won over. Meanwhile the dominant party at Corcyra, on the arrival of a Corinthian trireme with Lacedaemonian envoys, attacked the people and were victorious in the fight.

But when night came on the people fled for refuge to the acropolis and the high places of the city, and getting together in a body established themselves there. They held also the Hyllaïc harbour,[*](Probably the present bay Chalikiopulon.) while the other party seized the quarter of the market-place where most of them lived, and the harbour[*](Now bay of Kastradu.) adjacent to it which faces the mainland.