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 Ixxxvi THUCYDIDES when Paches took Notium and restored it to the Colopho- nians ; Thuc. iii. 34. C. I. A. Suppl. i. 27 a contains two decrees of the senate and people. The first, proposed by Diognetus, prescribes the terms of an oath to be taken by the Athenian senate and dicasts to the Chalcidians, and by all the Chalcidians of full age to Athens. The Athenians promise not to expel the Chalcidians from their country, and not to disfranchise, banish, arrest, kill, or fine, any individual Chalcidian untried {aK[p]lTov) without the consent of the Athenian people. Compare Thuc. viii. 48 fin., on the prospects of the allies under an oligarchy, koX aKpnoi av kox PiaioTepov awoOvyo-Ksiv. They on their part promise to be faithful allies, and to pay a tribute of an amount such as the Athenians may agree to impose (ov av -n-eiOo) 'AOrjvaiov?). According to the second decree, moved by Anticles, five commissioners are sent to receive the oath. The Chalci- dians are to be told that the hostages are to remain as they are for the present. Some words which follow are partly intended to guard the interests of residents in Chalcis who have received the privilege of drcAeia from Athens, but are otherwise unintelligible, though quite complete. The decree is to be inscribed on a column at Athens at the expense of the Chalcidians, and in the temple of Zeus at Chalcis. Three members of the senate are to offer sacrifices on behalf of Euboea in consequence of certain oracles. An addition to the second decree, moved by Archestratus, provides that crimes involving a penalty of banishment, death, or disfranchisement, are to be sent for trial to Athens ; and that the generals are to take care of Athenian interests in Euboea. The decrees, of which the tone is conciliatory, though in fact they reduce Chalcis to a state of dependence, appear to belong to a time shortly after the reduction of Euboea by Pericles in 445, Thuc. i. 114. Anticles is the name of one of the Athenian commanders at Samos (i. 117): Archestratus, of one of the commanders at Potidaea (i. 57).