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 Ixxx THUCYDIDES inscription refer to the same event, and, this being so, the authority of the marble is to be preferred to that of the book, though there is no reason for suspecting the reading. (3) In Thucydides, ii. 23, mention is made of Carcinus, Proteas, and Socrates, who were sent with a hundred ships to devastate the coast of the Peloponnesus in the first year of the war. The three names are found in a long but fragmentary inscription (C. I. A. iv. Suppl. i. 179 a-d. p. 32, and Suppl. iii. p. 159 ff.). On other fragments of the same tablet, giving the expenditure of the j'ears 431-426, are traces of money sent to troops serving against Macedonia (according to Kirchhofifthis part of the inscrip- tion clearly belongs to the archonship of Euthydemus, 431- 430, and so cannot refer to the expeditions of Thuc. i. 57, 61), Potidaea, Sicily (Thuc. iii. 86, 90?), and to * [Demo]- s[th]enes of Aphi[dnae],' Thuc. iii. 91. (4) A long but very imperfect inscription (C. I. A. 180- 183, corrected in vol. iv. Suppl. ii. p. 80) records the sums paid out of the Athenian treasury in the years 418-415 (01. 90. 3-91. 2). The dates are fixed by the occurrence of the names of financial officers found elsewhere, and by some coincidences with the narrative of Thucydides. In the accounts of the first year, 418-417, we find the words — -OD? (or -os) Toi? ^LiCTa Ar;/xocr^eVou?, and again — -pyols (or -pyos) Tot? jieTu. ^rj/J. ^oaOevovf^. The letters -pyo? can hardly be a trace of anything but 'Argos,' and the date (the second prytany) is about that of the battle of Mantinea. Here we have no coincidence with Thucydides, for he only mentions the employment of Demosthenes in the following winter (v. 80). It has been suggested that Demosthenes was the unnamed commander of the 1,000 men who joined the Argive and allied forces after the battle of Mantinea (Thuc. v. 75); but of this we cannot be certain.