§3.94.1τοῦ δ’ αὐτοῦ θέρους, καὶ περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον ὃν ἐν τῇ Μήλῳ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι κατείχοντο, καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν τριάκοντα νεῶν Ἀθηναῖοι περὶ Πελοπόννησον ὄντες πρῶτον ἐν Ἐλλομενῷ τῆς Λευκαδίας φρουρούς τινας λοχήσαντες διέφθειραν, ἔπειτα ὕστερον ἐπὶ Λευκάδα μείζονι στόλῳ ἦλθον, Ἀκαρνᾶσί τε πᾶσιν, οἳ πανδημεὶ πλὴν Οἰνιαδῶν ξυνέσποντο, καὶ Ζακυνθίοις καὶ Κεφαλλῆσι καὶ Κερκυραίων πέντε καὶ δέκα ναυσίν.
During the same summer, and about the same time that the Athenians were being detained in Melos, the Athenians with the thirty ships who were around Peloponnese also first destroyed some garrison troops after lying in ambush at Ellomenos in Leucadia, and then later came against Leucas with a larger fleet, along with all the Acarnanians, who followed them in full force except for the Oeniadae, and the Zacynthians and Cephallenians, and fifteen ships of the Corcyraeans.
§3.94.2καὶ οἱ μὲν Λευκάδιοι τῆς τε ἔξω γῆς δῃουμένης καὶ τῆς ἐντὸς τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ, ἐν ᾗ καὶ ἡ Λευκάς ἐστι καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος, πλήθει βιαζόμενοι ἡσύχαζον· οἱ δὲ Ἀκαρνᾶνες ἠξίουν Δημοσθένη τὸν στρατηγὸν τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἀποτειχίζειν αὐτούς, νομίζοντες ῥᾳδίως γ᾽ ἂν ἐκπολιορκῆσαι καὶ πόλεως αἰεὶ σφίσι πολεμίας ἀπαλλαγῆναι.
And the Leucadians, while both their land outside and that inside the isthmus—in which Leucas and the temple of Apollo are situated—was being ravaged, remained quiet, being constrained by the multitude; but the Acarnanians urged Demosthenes, the general of the Athenians, to wall them off, thinking they could easily reduce them by siege and rid themselves of a city that was always hostile to them.
§3.94.3Δημοσθένης δ’ ἀναπείθεται κατὰ τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον ὑπὸ Μεσσηνίων ὡς καλὸν αὐτῷ στρατιᾶς τοσαύτης ξυνειλεγμένης Αἰτωλοῖς ἐπιθέσθαι, Ναυπάκτῳ τε πολεμίοις οὖσι καί, ἢν κρατήσῃ αὐτῶν, ῥᾳδίως καὶ τὸ ἄλλο Ἠπειρωτικὸν τὸ ταύτῃ Ἀθηναίοις προσποιήσειν.
But Demosthenes was persuaded at this time by the Messenians that, since so large an army had assembled, it would be a fine thing for him to attack the Aetolians, who were enemies to Naupactus, and that, if he should conquer them, he would easily bring the rest of the continental territory in those parts under the subjection of the Athenians.
§3.94.4τὸ γὰρ ἔθνος μέγα μὲν εἶναι τὸ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν καὶ μάχιμον, οἰκοῦν δὲ κατὰ κώμας ἀτειχίστους, καὶ ταύτας διὰ πολλοῦ, καὶ σκευῇ ψιλῇ χρώμενον οὐ χαλεπὸν ἀπέφαινον, πρὶν ξυμβοηθῆσαι, καταστραφῆναι.
For they pointed out that the Aetolian nation, though large and warlike, lived in unwalled villages, and these at great distances from one another, and using only light armor, it would not be difficult to subdue them before they could rally to help one another.
§3.94.5ἐπιχειρεῖν δ’ ἐκέλευον πρῶτον μὲν Ἀποδωτοῖς, ἔπειτα δὲ Ὀφιονεῦσι καὶ μετὰ τούτους Εὐρυτᾶσιν, ὅπερ μέγιστον μέρος ἐστὶ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν, ἀγνωστότατοι δὲ γλῶσσαν καὶ ὠμοφάγοι εἰσίν, ὡς λέγονται· τούτων γὰρ ληφθέντων ῥᾳδίως καὶ τἆλλα προσχωρήσειν.
And they urged him to attack first the Apodoti, then the Ophioneis, and after these the Eurytanes, who are the largest part of the Aetolians, and are most unintelligible in speech and are said to eat raw meat; for if these were subdued, the rest would easily come over.