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At first the allies were independent and deliberated in The interval between the Persian and Peloponesian Wars omitted in most histories. a common assembly under the leadership of Athens. But in the interval between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars, by their military success and by policy in dealing with the Barbarian, with their own rebellious allies and with the Peloponnesians who came across their path from time to time, the Athenians made immense strides in power. I have gone out of my way to speak of this period because the writers who have preceded me treat either of Hellenic affairs previous to the Persian invasion or of that invasion itself; the intervening portion of history has been omitted by all of them, with the exception of Hellanicus; and he, where he has touched upon it in his Attic history, is very brief, and inaccurate in his chronology. The narrative will also serve to explain how the Athenian empire grew up.
98First of all under the leadership of Cimon, the son of The Athenians subject Eton, Seyros, Carystus, Naxos.B.C. 476-66
Ol. 76-78, 3. Miltiades, the Athenians besieged and took Eion upon the Strymon, then in the hands of the Persians, and sold the inhabitants into slavery. The same fate befell Seyros, an island in the Aegean inhabited by Dolopes; this they colonised themselves. They also made war on the Carystians of Euboea, who, after a time, capitulated; B.C. 466.
Ol. 78, 3. the other Euboeans took no part in the war. Then the Naxians revolted, and the Athenians made war against them and reduced them by blockade. This was the first of the allied cities which was enslaved contrary to Hellenic right; the turn of the others came later.
99 The causes which led to the defections of the allies Most of the allies contribute money instead of ships. As they grow weaker the Athenians become more oppressive. Were of different kinds, the principal being thier neglect to pay the tribute or to furnish ships, and, in some cases, failure of military Service. For the Athenians were exacting and oppressive, using coercive measures towards men who were neither willing nor
