[1] Two hundred of its citizens fought at the battle of Plataea against the Persians.
Later, just before the commencement of the Peloponnesian War it sent four ships to the assistance of the Corinth against the Corcyra.
[2] It joined the Athenian alliance, together with the other towns of the island, in 431 BC.
At a later period Pale espoused the side of the Aetolians against the Achaeans, and was accordingly besieged by Philip, who would have taken the city but for the treachery of one of his own officers.
[2] According to Pherecydes, Pale was the Homeric Dulichium, this opinion was rejected by Strabo, but accepted by Pausanias.