Book 7
57.7
The Corcyraeans, who were not only Dorians but confessedly Corinthians, were serving against the Corinthians and Syracusans, though colonists of the former and kinsmen of the latter, under the specious pretext indeed of compulsion, but really quite as much from choice, on account of their hatred of the Corinthians. Also the Messenians, as they are now called, who live in Naupactus,Settled by the Athenians at Naupactus since 462 B.C. (1.103.3). Some of them were employed in garrison duty at Pylos in 425 B.C. (4.41.2). as well as the Messenians at Pylos, which was now in the possession of the Athenians, were taken along as participants in the war.
57.8
Furthermore, there were a few exiles from Megara4.74.2; 6.43. who, because of their misfortune, were fighting against the Selinuntians,6.4.2. who were Megarians. So far as the rest were concerned, their part in the expedition was, as compared with the others, of a more voluntary character.
