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EUBOIC AND OLYNTHIAN WARS. 3 17 tii:sport of iheta by sea was troublesome as well as costly. The sending of f uch troops implies a strenuous effort and sense cf ur- gency on the part of Athens. We may farther conclude that a more numerous body of hoplites were sent along with the horse- men at the same time ; for horsemen would hardly under any cir- cumstances be sent across sea alone; moreover Olynthus stcod most in need of auxiliary hoplites, since her native force consisted chiefly of horsemen and peltasts. 1 The evidence derived from the speech against Neaera being ihus corroborated by the siill better evidence of the speech against Meidias, we are made certain of the important fact, that the first half of the year 349 B. c. was one in which Athens was driven to great public exertions even to armaments of native citizens for the support of Olynthus as well as for the mainte- nance of Eubaea. What the Athenians achieved, indeed, or helped to achieve, by these expeditions to Olynthus or how long they stayed there we have no information. But we may reasonably presume though Philip during this year 339 B. c., probably conquered a certain number of the thirty-two Chalkidic towns that the allied forces, Olynthian, Chalkidic and Athenian, contended against him with no inconsiderable effect, and threw back his conquest of Chalkidike into the following year. After a summer's campaign in that peninsula, the Athenian citizens would probably come home. We learn that the Olynthians made prisoner a Macedonian of rank named Derdas, with other Macedo- nians attached to him.- So extraordinary a military effort, however, made by the Athe- nians in the first half of 349 B. c. to recover Eubcea and to protect Olynthus at once naturally placed them in a state of financial embarrassment. Of this, one proof is to be found in the fact, that for some time there was not sufficient money to pay the Dikasteries, which accordingly sat little ; so that few causes were tried for some time for how long we do not know. 3 1 Xenoph. Hcllen. v. 2, 41 ; v. 3, 3-6. 8 Theopompus, Fragm. 155; ap. Athenaeum, x. p. 436; .^Elian, V. H. ii. See Demosthenes adv. Boeotum De Nomine, p. 999. . . KO.L el rolf diKaarijpioif, da/jyav uv Srjhov on. This oration was spolcon hortly after the battle of Taiqynap, P- 999.