History of the Peloponnesian War

But the following were the grounds of complaints openly alleged on either side, from which they broke the truce, and set to the war.

Epidamnuis is a, city situated on the right hand as you sail into the Ionian Gulf; bordering upon it, are the Taulantii, a barbarian people of Illyria.

It was planted by the Corcyraeans, but the leader of the colony was one Phalius, the son of Heratoclidas, a Corinthian of the lineage of Hercules who, [*]( The conjunction δή in this and similar passages merely serves to call for the reader's attention. In compliance, you must know, with the ancient custom. —Arnold.) according to the ancient custom, was invited for this object from the mother city.

There were also some of the Corinthians, and of the rest of the Doric nation, who joined in the colony.