Meanwhile the fleet from Corinth and the rest of the confederates in the Crissaean Gulf, which was to have co-operated with Cnemus and prevented the coast Acarnanians from joining their countrymen in the interior, was disabled from doing so by being compelled about the same time as the battle at Stratus to fight with Phormio and the twenty Athenian vessels stationed at Naupactus.
Formiok berak seinalea eman arte ez erasotzeko agindua eman zien, zeren espero baitzuen ez ziotela ordenari eutsiko lehorreko armada baten gisara, baizik ontziak elkarri talkaka hasiko zirela, ontzi arinek nahasmena sortuko zutela eta, golkoko haizeak joz gero-horrexen esperoan segitzen zuen biribilean nabigatzen, egunsentian hasi ohi zen eta-, ez zutela atseden unerik izango;