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So when the Spartan army had broken up from its quarters thus
ingloriously, the Athenians, wishing to revenge themselves, marched
first against the Chalcideans. The Boeotians, however, advancing
to the aid of the latter as far as the Euripus, the Athenians thought
it best to attack them first. A battle was fought accordingly; and
the Athenians gained a very complete victory, killing a vast number of
the enemy, and taking seven hundred of them alive. After this, on
the very same day, they crossed into Euboea, and engaged the
Chalcideans with the like success; whereupon they left four thousand
settlers upon the lands of the Hippobotae, - which is the name the
Chalcideans give to their rich men. All the Chalcidean prisoners
whom they took were put in irons, and kept for a long time in close
confinement, as likewise were the Boeotians, until the ransom asked
for them was paid; and this the Athenians fixed at two minae the man.
The chains wherewith they were fettered the Athenians suspended in
their citadel; where they were still to be seen in my day, hanging
against the wall scorched by the Median flames, opposite the chapel
which faces the west. The Athenians made an offering of the tenth
part of the ransom-money: and expended it on the brazen chariot drawn
by four steeds, which stands on the left hand immediately that one
enters the gateway of the citadel. The inscription runs as follows:
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When Chalcis and Boeotia dared her might,
Athens subdued their pride in valorous fight;
Gave bonds for insults; and, the ransom paid,
From the full tenths these steeds for Pallas made.
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