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 WAR IN EUBOEA. 345 Demosthenes on this occasion put on Iik3 armor and served as a hoplite in the island. Meidias also went to Argura in Eubcea, as commander of the horsemen: yet, when the horsemen were sum- moned to join the Athenian army, he did not join along with them, but remained as trierarch of a trireme the outfit of which he had himself defrayed. 1 How long the army stayed in Eubrea, we do not know. It appears that Demosthenes had returned to Athena by the time when the annual Senate was chosen in the last month of the Attic year (Skirrophorion June); having probably by that time been relieved. He was named (by the lot) among the Five Hundred Senators for the coming Attic year (beginning Midsummer 349 B. c. = Olymp. 107, 4) ; 2 his old enemy Mei- dias in vain impugning his qualification as he passed through the Dokimasy or preliminary examination previous to entering office. What the Athenian army did farther in Eubrea, we cannot make out. Phokion was recalled we do not know when and replaced by a general named Molossus ; who is said to have man- aged the war very unsuccessfully, and even to have been made prisoner himself by the enemy. 3 The hostile parties in the isl- and, sided by Philip, were not subdued, nor was it until the sum- mer of 348 B. c. that they applied for peace. Even then, it ap- pears, none was concluded, so that the Euboeans remained unfriend- ly to Athens until the peace with Philip in 346 B. c. But while the Athenians were thus tasked for the maintenance of Eubcea, they found it necessary to undertake more effective measures for the relief of Olynthus, and they thus had upon their hands at the same time the burthen of two wars. We know that they had to provide force for both Euboea and Olynthus at once ; * 1 Demosth. cont. Meid. p. 558-567. 3 Plutarch, Phokion, c. 14 ; Pausanias, i. 36, 3. 4 Demosthen. cont. Neoeram, p. 1346 av/j.(3avTOf Ty iroKei Kaipod TOIOVTOV Kal 7ro/le//ot>, tv $ fjv 7J KpaTqffaaiv i)[j,lv [iEyiaToig TUV 'E?^vuv elvai, Kal uvafi f 0v ppuxov c, Si? uiropiav %prj/j.u~uv KaTttTiV&evTOf TOV v, Tovrovf r 5 ai^oT^inai Kal rolf dAAojf 'EWtjatv umarovf tivai v, Kal Kivdvveveiv Kent TUV vrroAotTruv, irepi re A.ij/tvov kal "Ijtfipov Kal Kal Xeppovqaov Kal p e/lA6j>r uv CTT par ev eot? at vffHt
 * Demosth. cont. Meid. p. 551.