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 INSCRIPTIONS xciii Thucydides, who may have disbelieved the assertions of Thrasybulus and Apollodorus. [An inscription recently discovered records a resolution of the senate and people, passed on the motion of Alcibi- ades, confirming the agreement made by the generals with 'those who settled in DaphnUS,' iirti^ di'8p€<; iyeyom-o dy[a^ot]. Thuc. viii. 23, 31, refers to the settlement at Daphnus of the anti-Athenian party in Clazomenae (which city had re- volted from Athens, ch. 14, and returned to its allegiance) and the refusal of the Clazomenians to retire to Daphnus at the bidding of Astyochus. The interference of the Athenian generals appears to have altered the position in Daphnus at some time between 412 and the return of Alcibiades in 407. (See, for the inscription itself, the Athenceiwi, March 5, 1898.)] 71 (Suppl. i). A defensive alliance made between the Athenians and the Halieans, indicated by the form of the letters to be not earlier than b.c. 420, and by the subject to be not later than the renewal of the war. This treaty with Halieis is not mentioned by Thucydides. But in iv. 45 we are told that the Athenians occupied a position near Methone (Methana), and ravaged the territory of Troezen, Halieis, and Epidaurus. According to iv. 118 med. an agreement was subsequently made with Troezen, And this treaty with Halieis, as well as the treaty with Epidaurus mentioned in v. 80 (unless it be the general peace of 421), may be connected with the same occurrence. A long and almost complete inscription, C. I. A. iv. Suppl. ii, 27, b, lately discovered at Eleusis illustrates the sacred character of the ' Pelasgian ground ' men- tioned by Thucydides, ii. 17. The senate and people give directions for offering an uTrapxi] of wheat and barley to the two goddesses of Eleusis,- Kara ra Trurpta Kui riiv fiavTeiav rr/v cy AeXfftwv. The allies of Athens are required, and all the cities of Hellas are ' invited but not required' (£/<€t'[vots] Se fjL7] CTTtTaTTOi'Tas KeAtioiTtts Sc aTrdp^eaOaL eav PovXuiVTat), to join in the offering. There is appended