§5.4.1Φαίαξ δὲ ὁ Ἐρασιστράτου τρίτος αὐτὸς Ἀθηναίων πεμπόντων ναυσὶ δύο ἐς Ἰταλίαν καὶ Σικελίαν πρεσβευτὴς ὑπὸ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον ἐξέπλευσεν.
Phaeax, the son of Erasistratus, set sail around the same time as an ambassador, himself with two others, the Athenians sending them with two ships to Italy and Sicily.
§5.4.2Λεοντῖνοι γὰρ ἀπελθόντων Ἀθηναίων ἐκ Σικελίας μετὰ τὴν ξύμβασιν πολίτας τε ἐπεγράψαντο πολλοὺς καὶ ὁ δῆμος τὴν γῆν ἐπενόει ἀναδάσασθαι.
For the Leontines, after the Athenians had departed from Sicily following the agreement, enrolled many new citizens, and the commons was intending to redistribute the land.
§5.4.3οἱ δὲ δυνατοὶ αἰσθόμενοι Συρακοσίους τε ἐπάγονται καὶ ἐκβάλλουσι τὸν δῆμον.
But the oligarchs, perceiving this, called in the Syracusans and expelled the commons.
καὶ οἱ μὲν ἐπλανήθησαν ὡς ἕκαστοι, οἱ δὲ δυνατοὶ ὁμολογήσαντες Συρακοσίοις καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐκλιπόντες καὶ ἐρημώσαντες Συρακούσας ἐπὶ πολιτείᾳ ᾤκησαν.
And while the latter dispersed in various directions as best they could, the oligarchs came to an agreement with the Syracusans, abandoned and depopulated their own city, and settled in Syracuse with rights of citizenship.
§5.4.4καὶ ὕστερον πάλιν αὐτῶν τινὲς διὰ τὸ μὴ ἀρέσκεσθαι ἀπολιπόντες ἐκ τῶν Συρακουσῶν Φωκαίας τε τῆς πόλεώς τι τῆς Λεοντίνων χωρίον καλούμενον καταλαμβάνουσι καὶ Βρικιννίας ὂν ἔρυμα ἐν τῇ Λεοντίνῃ.
Later, some of them, being dissatisfied, left Syracuse and seized Phocaeae, a quarter of the city of Leontini so called, and Bricinniae, which was a fortress in the Leontine territory.
καὶ τῶν τοῦ δήμου τότε ἐκπεσόντων οἱ πολλοὶ ἦλθον ὡς αὐτούς, καὶ καταστάντες ἐκ τῶν τειχῶν ἐπολέμουν.
And most of those of the commons who had been expelled at that time came to join them, and establishing themselves, they waged war from these strongholds.
§5.4.5ἃ πυνθανόμενοι οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τὸν Φαίακα πέμπουσιν, εἴ πως πείσαντες τοὺς σφίσιν ὄντας αὐτόθι ξυμμάχους καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους, ἢν δύνωνται, Σικελιώτας κοινῇ ὡς Συρακοσίων δύναμιν περιποιουμένων ἐπιστρατεῦσαι, διασώσειαν τὸν δῆμον τῶν Λεοντίνων.
Learning of these things, the Athenians sent Phaeax to see if they might, by persuading their own allies there and, if possible, the other Siceliots, to make a joint expedition against them—on the ground that the Syracusans were acquiring dominant power—somehow save the commons of the Leontines.
§5.4.6ὁ δὲ Φαίαξ ἀφικόμενος τοὺς μὲν Καμαριναίους πείθει καὶ Ἀκραγαντίνους, ἐν δὲ Γέλᾳ ἀντιστάντος αὐτῷ τοῦ πράγματος οὐκέτι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἔρχεται, αἰσθόμενος οὐκ ἂν πείθειν αὐτούς, ἀλλ’ ἀναχωρήσας διὰ τῶν Σικελῶν ἐς Κατάνην καὶ ἅμα ἐν τῇ παρόδῳ καὶ ἐς τὰς Βρικιννίας ἐλθὼν καὶ παραθαρσύνας ἀπέπλει.
Phaeax, upon his arrival, persuaded the Camarinaeans and Agrigentines; but as the matter met with opposition in Gela, he went no further to the others, perceiving that he would not convince them. Instead, he retreated through the territory of the Sicels to Catana, visiting Bricinniae on his way to encourage the inhabitants, and then sailed away.