Then the resident aliens who joined in the incursion were at least three thousand strong; besides which there was a multitude of light troops.

They ravaged the greater part of the territory, and then retired.

Other incursions into the Megarid were afterwards made by the Athenians annually during the war, sometimes only with cavalry, sometimes with all their forces.

This went on until the capture of Nisaea.

Atalanta also, the desert island off the Opuntian coast, was towards the end of this summer converted into a fortified post by the Athenians, in order to prevent privateers issuing from Opus and the rest of Locris and plundering Euboea.