§2.68.1κατὰ δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους, τοῦ θέρους τελευτῶντος, καὶ Ἀμπρακιῶται αὐτοί τε καὶ τῶν βαρβάρων πολλοὺς ἀναστήσαντες ἐστράτευσαν ἐπ’ Ἄργος τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικὸν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην Ἀμφιλοχίαν.
At the same time, at the end of the summer, the Ambraciots themselves, along with many of the barbarians whom they had mobilized, marched against Amphilochian Argos and the rest of Amphilochia.
§2.68.2ἔχθρα δὲ πρὸς τοὺς Ἀργείους ἀπὸ τοῦδε αὐτοῖς ἤρξατο πρῶτον γενέσθαι.
Their hostility toward the Argives first began to arise from the following cause.
§2.68.3Ἄργος τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικὸν καὶ Ἀμφιλοχίαν τὴν ἄλλην ἔκτισε μὲν μετὰ τὰ Τρωικὰ οἴκαδε ἀναχωρήσας καὶ οὐκ ἀρεσκόμενος τῇ ἐν Ἄργει καταστάσει Ἀμφίλοχος ὁ Ἀμφιάρεω ἐν τῷ Ἀμπρακικῷ κόλπῳ, ὁμώνυμον τῇ ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδι Ἄργος ὀνομάσας
Amphilochian Argos and the rest of Amphilochia were founded after the Trojan War by Amphilochus, the son of Amphiaraus, who had returned home but was dissatisfied with the state of affairs in Argos; he founded it in the Ambracian Gulf and named it Argos after his own homeland.
§2.68.4(καὶ ἦν ἡ πόλις αὕτη μεγίστη τῆς Ἀμφιλοχίας καὶ τοὺς δυνατωτάτους εἶχεν οἰκήτορας), §2.68.5ὑπὸ ξυμφορῶν δὲ πολλαῖς γενεαῖς ὕστερον πιεζόμενοι Ἀμπρακιώτας ὁμόρους ὄντας τῇ Ἀμφιλοχικῇ ξυνοίκους ἐπηγάγοντο, καὶ ἡλληνίσθησαν τὴν νῦν γλῶσσαν τότε πρῶτον ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀμπρακιωτῶν ξυνοικησάντων·
(And this city was the largest in Amphilochia and had the most powerful inhabitants.) But many generations later, being hard pressed by misfortunes, they invited the Ambraciots, who were their neighbors, to join them as co-habitants; and they then for the first time learned their present Greek language from the Ambraciots who had settled with them.
οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι Ἀμφίλοχοι βάρβαροί εἰσιν.
The other Amphilochians, however, are barbarians.
§2.68.6ἐκβάλλουσιν οὖν τοὺς Ἀργείους οἱ Ἀμπρακιῶται χρόνῳ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἴσχουσι τὴν πόλιν.
In the course of time, therefore, the Ambraciots expelled the Argives and held the city themselves.
§2.68.7οἱ δ’ Ἀμφίλοχοι γενομένου τούτου διδόασιν ἑαυτοὺς Ἀκαρνᾶσι, καὶ προσπαρακαλέσαντες ἀμφότεροι Ἀθηναίους, οἳ αὐτοῖς Φορμίωνά τε στρατηγὸν ἔπεμψαν καὶ ναῦς τριάκοντα, ἀφικομένου [δὲ] τοῦ Φορμίωνος αἱροῦσι κατὰ κράτος Ἄργος καὶ τοὺς Ἀμπρακιώτας ἠνδραπόδισαν, κοινῇ τε ᾤκισαν αὐτὸ Ἀμφίλοχοι καὶ Ἀκαρνᾶνες.
Upon this happening, the Amphilochians gave themselves up to the Acarnanians, and both together called in the Athenians, who sent them Phormio as general with thirty ships. After the arrival of Phormio, they took Argos by storm and enslaved the Ambraciots, and the Amphilochians and Acarnanians settled the place together.
§2.68.8μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο ἡ ξυμμαχία πρῶτον ἐγένετο Ἀθηναίοις καὶ Ἀκαρνᾶσιν.
It was after this that the alliance was first made between the Athenians and the Acarnanians.
§2.68.9οἱ δὲ Ἀμπρακιῶται τὴν μὲν ἔχθραν ἐς τοὺς Ἀργείους ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνδραποδισμοῦ σφῶν αὐτῶν πρῶτον ἐποιήσαντο, ὕστερον δὲ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ τήνδε τὴν στρατείαν ποιοῦνται αὑτῶν τε καὶ Χαόνων καὶ ἄλλων τινῶν τῶν πλησιοχώρων βαρβάρων·
The Ambraciots first conceived their hostility toward the Argives because of this enslavement of themselves, and later, during this war, they made this expedition with themselves, the Chaonians, and some of the other neighboring barbarians.
ἐλθόντες τε πρὸς τὸ Ἄργος τῆς μὲν χώρας ἐκράτουν, τὴν δὲ πόλιν ὡς οὐκ ἐδύναντο ἑλεῖν προσβαλόντες, ἀπεχώρησαν ἐπ’ οἴκου καὶ διελύθησαν κατὰ ἔθνη.
Having come to Argos, they mastered the country, but when they were unable to take the city by assault, they withdrew homeward and dispersed according to their tribes.
τοσαῦτα μὲν ἐν τῷ θέρει ἐγένετο.
Such were the events of the summer.