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 XCV;ll THUCYDIDES [C. I. A. 432 contains over 100 names under the headings eV 0acr[<j)], tVt ^iSet'o) (no such place is known, ? Styei'w), and other names of places which are lost. Some of the fallen, probably Athenian allies, are arranged under the name of their city, [MaSjvVtot, [AtyaJvTioi, or [Bv^aJvTtoi. The heading cV ©ao-o) justifies us in referring part of the monument to the revolt of Thasos, Thuc. i. 100, loi : it will be seen that the restorations of the other headings are uncertain. It has been thought that other parts of the inscription may refer to the great disaster at Drabescus or Datum (Thuc, i. 100, Hdt. ix. 75), but neither of these names actually occurs. Kehler ('Hermes' xxiv, 1889) refers part of the monument to an expedition of Cimon against the Chersonese and the Persian garrison remaining there, mentioned only by Plu- tarch, Cimon xiv, between his account of the battle of the Eurymedon and the revolt of Naxos. But the authority of Plutarch as a historian is not strong enough, or the restoration of the inscription certain enough, to justify a positive conclusion.] C. I. A. 446 contains the names of those who fell (a) in a battle or probably two battles which are unknown to us, {b) at Potidaea (three names only), {c) at Amphipolis, {d) eVi ®paKy]q, (c) at Pylos, (/) at Sermylia (one name at each), {g) at Singus (one name extant). Kirchhoflf(C. I. A. vol. i. p. 200) assigns the inscription to 425-424, the capture of Sphacteria and the battle of Solygea (Thuc. iv. 42 ff.), chiefly on the ground that the number of Athenians who fell in each tribe from which the loss is recorded (6 to 15 in one column, fewer still in another) represents far too small a loss for Delium or Amphipolis, but suits well with Pylos, where 'few of the Athenians fell' (Thuc. iv. 38), and Solygea. Mr. Hicks (Newton and Hicks, Greek Inscrip- tions in the British Museum, Part I, p. 106), following Boeckh (C. I. G. vol. i. No. 171), refers the inscription to 423, and to the expedition against Mende and Scione recorded in Thuc. iv. 129. It may be conjectured that an Athenian soldier fell in defending the bridge at Amphipolis