Histories

This was the fourth time that Dorians had come into Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica. They had come twice as invaders in war and twice as helpers of the Athenian people. The first time was when they planted a settlement at +Megara [23.35,38] (Perseus) Megara [*](There is a clear tradition that this happened soon after the Dorian invasion of the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese.)(this expedition may rightly be said to have been in the reign of Codrus), the second and third when they set out from Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta to drive out the sons of Pisistratus, and the fourth was now, when Cleomenes broke in as far as +Eleusis [23.5583,38.0417] (Perseus) Eleusis with his following of Peloponnesians. This was accordingly the fourth Dorian invasion of Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens.

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 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[*](Settlers among whom the confiscated land, divided into equal lots, was distributed.) on the lands of the horse-breeders.

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.