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ἐπίκλητοι ἐγένοντο = were summoned (cf. ἐπεκαλέσαντο inf.); for the periphrasis cf. v. 63. 2.

Ὀπούντιοι. H. only distinguishes, in Greece, Locri Ozolae (viii. 52. 2) and Locri Opuntii (viii. 1. 2), including in the latter the socalled Epicnemidii who lived nearest the pass.

πανστρατιῇ: as immediately threatened (cf. Thuc. v. 57). Pausanias (x. 20. 2) absurdly estimates them at ‘not more than 6,000’, Diodorus (xi. 4) more sensibly at 1,000. On the attitude of the Locrians cf. c. 132. 1 n.

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