Ambraciots
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the Ambraciots · Ambracia · Ambraciot triremes
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A people settled among the Amphilochians whose shifting relations with Argos in Amphilochia produce lasting enmity, and who later instigate the broader Peloponnesian expedition against Acarnania.
Tile same summer, not long after these events, the Ambraciots and Chaonians wishing to subdue the whole of Acarnania, and to separate it from its connexion with Athens, persuaded the Lacedaemonians to equip a fleet from their confederacy, and to send one thousand heavy-armed to Acarnania;
About the same time, when the summer was drawing to a close, the Ambraciots, with their own forces and many of the barbarians whom they had raised, made an expedition against Argos in Amphilochia, and the rest of that country.
Now the Corinthians were most hearty in the cause of the Ambraciots, who were a colony of theirs;
Hellenica
The Ambraciot naval contingent serving with the Lacedaemonian fleet.
and as soon as he sighted the ships under Timotheus, he did not delay, even though six of his ships, those from Ambracia, were not with him, but with fifty-five ships he joined battle with those under Timotheus, which numbered sixty.
But when the ships of Timotheus had been hauled up and were being refitted, and meanwhile the six Ambraciot triremes had joined Nicolochus, he sailed to Alyzeia, where Timotheus was.