The Corinthians also manned a fleet of twenty-five vessels, intending to try the result of a battle with the squadron on guard at Naupactus, and meanwhile to make it less easy for the Athenians there to hinder the departure of their merchantmen, by obliging them to keep an eye upon the galleys thus arrayed against them.
Korintoarrek hogeita bost ontzi ekipatu zituzten, Naupakton zaintza lanean zegoen flota atenastarrarekin bataila sortzeko; horrela flota hark, aurka zetozkion trirremeak zaintzera dedikatu beharko zuenez, eragozpen gutxiago jarriko zion Korintoko zamaontziak itsasotzeari.