Histories

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.

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[*](Probably in the open space in front of the old Propylon; there would not have been room for this monument in the new Propylaea, finished in 432 B.C.) bears this inscription:

1. 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,
2. Bound them in chains and brought their pride to naught.
3. Prison was grief, and ransom cost them dear-
4. One tenth to Pallas raised this chariot here.