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37. l8 . HELLENICA, II. In the next — year in I. ii. 1-5 which was celebrated the ninety-third Olympiad, when the newly added two-horse race was won by Euagoras of Ells and the ^ by Eubotas of Cyrene, Euarchippus being at Sparta and Euctemon archon at Athens the Athenians fortified Thoricus and Thrasyllus took the ships which had been voted him, equipped stadium now ephor — ; five thousand of his sailors so that lie might employ them as peltasts also, and set sail at the beginning of After remaining there for the summer for Samos.

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Apparently they were inserted in unskilful imitation of the Mell-known practice of Thucydides. 16 HELLENICA, When Agis saw I. i. 33-37 he withdrew in haste, and some by the Athenian In consequence of this occurrence the light troops. Athenians were still more ready to give Thrasyllus the help for which he had come, and they voted that he might choose out for service a thousand hoplitos, a hundred horsemen, and fifty triremes. Meanwhile Agis, who could see from Decelea great few of his this, rear line were killed numbers of grain-ships sailing in to Piraeus^ said that it was useless for his troops to be trying all this long time to shut off the Athenians from access to their land, unless one should occupy also the country from which the grain was coming in by sea; and that was best to send to Calchedon and Byzantium Clcacchus, the son of Rhamphias, who was diploit matic agent for the Byzantines at Sparta.

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