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 218 HISTORY OF GREECE. ivith triremes ? Will you not start up at once, hasten down to Peineus, and haul the triremes down to the water ?" This ani mated apostrophe, reported and doubtless heard by Demosthenea himself, was cordially responded to by the people. The force of Athens, military as well as naval, was equipped with an eagerness, and sent forth with a celerity, seldom paralleled. Such was the general enthusiasm, that the costly office of trierarchy was for the first time undertaken by volunteers, instead of awaiting the moro tardy process of singling out those rich men whose turn it was to serve, with the chance of still farther delay from the legal process called Antidosis or Exchange of property, 1 instituted by any one of the persons so chosen who might think himself hardly used by the requisition. Demosthenes himself was among the volunteer trierarchs ; he and a person named Philinus being co-trierarchs of the same ship. We are told that in three or in five days the Athenian fleet and army, under the command of Timotheus, 2 were landed in full force on Eubcea ; and that in the course of thirty days the Thebans were so completely worsted, as to be forced to 1 Sec, in illustration of these delays, Demosthenes, Philippic i. p. 50 6.42. Any citizen who thought that he had hccn called upon out of his fair turn to serve a trierarchy or other expensive duty, and that another citizen had been unduly spared, might tender to this latter an exchange of properties, offering to undertake the duty if the other's property were made over to him. The person, to whom tender was made, was compelled to do one of three things; either, 1. to show, at legal process, that it was not his turn, and that he was not liable ; 2. or to relieve the citizen tendering from the trierarchy just imposed upon him ; 3 or to accept the exchange, receiving the other's property, and making over his own property in return ; in which case the citizen tendering undertook the trierarchy. This obligatory exchange of properties, with the legal process attached to it, was called Antidosis. thenes, but may be inferred from Plutarch, De Gloria Athen. p. 350 F. ev u T(^6t?tof Evfloiav rifovtiepov, which, in the case of a military man like Timotheus, can hardly allude merely to the speech which he made in the assembly. Diokles is mentioned by Demosthenes as having concluded the convention with the Thebans ; but this does not necessarily implj that he was commander : see Demosth. cont. Meidiam, p. 570 s. 219. About Philinus as colleague of Demosthenes in the trierarchy, sec D* mcsthcn. cont. Meidiam, p. 566. s. 504.
 * That Timotheus was commander, is not distinctly stated by Demos-