Now that they had gathered a large army, they invaded Epeirus and would have restored Alcetas to the kingship over the Molossians. The Illyrians distributed the suits of armour among their choicest warriors and incorporated the soldiers among their own troops.

Since the Illyrians were at war, he dispatched to them an allied force of two thousand soldiers and five hundred suits of Greek armour. Consequently he made an alliance with the Illyrians with the help of Alcetas the Molossian, who was at the time an exile and spending his days in Syracuse. Regions about Epeirus and to sack the temple at Delphi, which was filled with great wealth. It was his intent to descend unexpectedly with great armaments upon the Safe and have there his own cities which could give haven to ships.

His idea in doing this was to get control of the Ionian Sea, 1 in order that he might make the route to Epeirus While these events were taking place, in Sicily Dionysius, the tyrant of the Syracusans, resolved to plant cities on the Adriatic Sea.

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