During his voyage along the coast to and from Sicily, he treated with some cities in Italy on the subject of friendship with Athens, and also fell in with some Locrian settlers exiled from Messina, who had been sent thither when the Locrians were called in by one of the factions that divided Messina after the pacification of Sicily, and Messina came for a time into the hands of the Locrians.
Atenastarrek horren berri izan zutenean, Feaze bidali zuten beren hango aliatuak eta, ahal bazuen, beste siziliarrak ere denak batera Sirakusaren kontra espedizio bat egitera limurtzen saiatzeko-hiri hori, beraien iritziz, bere boterea areagotzen ari baitzen-eta, horrela, Leontinoko herri fakzioa salbatzea lortzeko.