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 302 HISTORY OF GREECE. the river Strymon above, could not be brought off in the face of the enemy. 1 1 Polyaenus (iii, 10, 8) mentions this fact, which is explained by compar nig (in Thucydides, vii, 9) the description of the attack made by the Athe- nian Euetion upon Amphipolis in 414 u. c. These ill-successes of Timotheus stand enumerated, as I conceive, in tli if catalogue of nine defeats, which the Scholiast on JEschines (De Fals. Leg. p. 755, Rciske) specifies as having been undergone by Athens at the territory called Nine Ways ('Evvea 'Odol), the previous name of the spot where Amphipolis was built. They form the eighth and ninth items of the catalogue. The third item, is the capture of Amphipolis by Brasidas. The fourth is, the defeat of Kleon by Brasidas. Then come, 5. ol tvoiKovvres iir' 'H'iova 'A&nvaloi &l;e%&9i)oav. The only way in which I can make historical fact out of these words, is, by supposing that they allude to the driving in of all the out-resident Athenians to Athens, after the defeat of -iEgospotami. We know from Thucydides that when Amphipolis was taken by Brasidas, many of the Athenians who were there settled retired to Eion ; where they probably remained until the close of the Peloponnesian war, and were then forced back to Athens. We should then have to construe ol kvoiKovvres TT' 'Hi'ova 'Afinvaloi " the Athenians resid- ing at Eion ; " which, though not a usual sense of the preposition irrl with an accusative case, seems the only definite meaning which can be made out here. 6. ol fitrh "Lififiixov a-paT7iyovvTO<; 6is(j>-&apr)aav. 7. ore Hpuro/taxoc airervxev (' A^LTTO^LTUV ai>Toi)f Tmpa66vTuv role (ifio- poi<; Qpa%i, these last words are inserted by Bekker from a MS.). These two last-mentioned occurrences are altogether unknown. We may perhaps suppose them to refer to the period when Iphikrates was commanding the forces of Athens in these regions, from 368365 B. c. 8. iKirefHpdsle inrb Tipodeov ' A/Ut^a^'Of unerv^ev CLVTOV, vapadovruv av- Toi)f Qpove, which appeared in Reiske's edition. 9. Tifiodeog kinarpaTEvaas ^rrrf&ii iiri Kahafuvvof. Here are two defeats of Timotheus specified, one in the archonship of Timokrates, which exactly coincides with the command of Timotheus in these regions (Midsummer 364 to Midsummer 363 B. c.). But the other archon Kalamion, is unknown in the Fasti of Athens. Winiewski (Com- ment, in Demosth. de Corona, p. 39), Bohnecke, and other commenta- tors follow Corsini in representing Kalamion to be a corruption of Kalli- medes, who was archon from Midsummer 360-359 B. c. ; and Mr. Clin- ton even inserts the fact in his tables for that year. But I agree with Rehdantz (Vit. Iph. Chab. et Tim. p. 153) that such an occurrence after Midsummer 360 B. c., can hardly be reconciled with the proceedings in tin