History of the Peloponnesian War

The Syracusans, on the other hand, were aided by the Camarinaeans,[*](cf. 6.67.2; 7.33.1.) who were their next neighbours, and the Geloans, who lived next to the Camarinaeans;

then, since the Agrigentines were neutral,[*](cf. 7.33.2.) by the Selinuntians,[*](cf. 6.6.2, 6..1, 6.67.2.) who were settled in the country beyond. All these occupied that part of Sicily which faces Libya, but the Himeraeans[*](cf. 7.1.2; 7.1.3.) came from the part which faces the Tyrrhenian Sea, where they were the only Hellenic inhabitants; and they alone from that region came to the aid of the Syracusans.

Such were the Hellenic peoples in Sicily, all Dorians and independent, that fought on their side; but of Barbarians, the Sicels alone—those, that is, that had not gone over to the side of the Athenians. Of the Hellenes outside of Sicily there were the Lacedaemonians, who furnished a Spartan as commander-in-chief, but no troops except Neodamodes[*](See on 7.19.3.) and Helots; the Corinthians, who alone were at hand with both a fleet and a land-force; the Leucadians and Ambraciots, both induced by the tie of kinship;[*](Syracuse (6.3.2), Leucas (1.30.2) and Ambracia (2.80.3) were sister states having Corinth as μητρόπολις.) from Arcadia[*](cf. 7.19.4.) mercenaries sent by the Corinthians; the Sicyonians, who served under compulsion;[*](Because since 418 B.C. an oligarchic constitution had been forced upon them (5.81.2).) and, from outside the Peloponnesus, the Boeotians.[*](cf. 7.19.3.)

As compared with all these, who came from abroad, the Siceliots themselves supplied a greater number of troops of every kind, inasmuch as the cities they inhabited were large; and in fact the forces they collected comprised hoplites in large numbers, as well as ships, horses, and a miscellaneous horde of vast numbers. And again, in comparison with all the rest, speaking roughly, the Syracusans themselves provided the larger number, both on account of the greatness of their city and because they were in the greatest danger.