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Contents of the Thirteenth Book of Diodorus
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When the sea-battle had ended as we have
related, the Athenians sailed off at the time to Sestus, since it was already night, but when
day came they collected their ships which had been damaged and set up another trophy near the
former one.1
[2]
And Mindarus about the first watch of the night set out to
Abydus, where he repaired his ships that had been
damaged and sent word to the Lacedaemonians for reinforcements of both soldiers and ships; for
he had in mind, while the fleet was being made ready, to lay siege with the army together with
Pharnabazus to the cities in Asia which were allied
with the Athenians.
[3]
The people
of Chalcis and almost all the rest of the
inhabitants of Euboea had revolted from the
Athenians2
and were therefore highly apprehensive lest, living as they did on an island, they should be
forced to surrender to the Athenians, who were masters of the sea; and they therefore asked the
Boeotians to join with them in building a causeway across the Euripus and thereby joining
Euboea to Boeotia.3
[4]
The Boeotians agreed to this, since it was to their special
advantage that Euboea should be an island to everybody
else but a part of the mainland to themselves. Consequently all the cities threw themselves
vigorously into the building of the causeway and vied with one another; for orders were issued
not only to the citizens to report en masse but to the foreigners dwelling among
them as well, so that by reason of the great number that came forward to the work the proposed
task was speedily completed.
[5]
On Euboea the causeway was built at Chalcis, and in Boeotia in the
neighbourhood of Aulis, since at that place the
channel was narrowest. Now it so happened that in former times also there had always been a
current in that place and that the sea frequently reversed its course, and at the time in
question the force of the current was far greater because the sea had been confined into a very
narrow channel; for passage was left for only a single ship. High towers were also built on
both ends and wooden bridges were thrown over the channel.
[6]
Theramenes, who had been dispatched by the Athenians with
thirty ships, at first attempted to stop the workers, but since a strong body of soldiers was
at the side of the builders of the causeway, he abandoned this design and directed his voyage
toward the islands.4
[7]
And since he wished to relieve both the citizens and the
allies from their contributions,5 he laid waste the territory of the enemy and collected
great quantities of booty. He visited also the allied cities and exacted money of such
inhabitants as were advocating a change in government.
[8]
And
when he put in at Paros and found an oligarchy in the
city, he restored their freedom to the people and exacted a great sum of money of the men who
had participated in the oligarchy.
1 Cp. chap. 40.6.
2 Soon after the Athenian disaster at Syracuse (Thuc. 8.95).
3 Strabo (Strabo 9.2.2) quotes Ephorus to the effect that a bridge only two plethra (202 ft.) long spanned the Euripus at Chalcis.
4 i.e. of the Athenian Confederacy.
5 Toward the cost of the war with the Lacedaemonians.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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