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When this force then had been ingloriously scattered, the Athenians first marched against the Chalcidians to punish them. The Boeotians came to the Euripus to help the Chalcidians and as soon as the Athenians saw these allies, they resolved to attack the Boeotians before the Chalcidians.
When this force then had been ingloriously scattered, the Athenians first marched against the Chalcidians to punish them. The Boeotians came to the Euripus to help the Chalcidians and as soon as the Athenians saw these allies, they resolved to attack the Boeotians before the Chalcidians.
[2] When they met the
Boeotians in battle, they won a great victory, slaying very many and taking seven hundred of them prisoner. On that same day the
Athenians crossed to
+Euboea [23.833,38.566] (island), Nomos Evvoias, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Euboea where they met the
Chalcidians too in battle, and after overcoming them as well, they left four thousand tenant farmers
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on the lands of the horse-breeders.
[3] Horse-breeders was the name given to the men of substance among the
Chalcidians. They fettered as many of these as they took alive and kept them imprisoned with the captive
Boeotians. In time, however, they set them free, each for an assessed ransom of two minae. The fetters in which the prisoners had been bound they hung up in the acropolis, where they could still be seen in my time hanging from walls which the
Persians' fire had charred, opposite the temple which faces west.
[4] Moreover, they made a dedication of a tenth part of the ransom, and this money was used for the making of a four-horse chariot which stands on the left hand of the entrance into the outer porch of the acropolis and
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bears this inscription:
Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens with
+Chalcis [23.6083,38.4667] (Perseus) Chalcis and
Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia fought,
Bound them in chains and brought their pride to naught.
Prison was grief, and ransom cost them dear-
One tenth to
Pallas raised this chariot here.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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