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97-IOI] REVOLT OF THASOS 67 accustomed to work hard. And for various reasons they soon began to prove less agreeable leaders than at first. They no longer fought upon an equality with the rest of the confederates, and they had no difficulty in reducing them when they revolted. Now the allies brought all this upon themselves ; for the majority of them disliked military service and absence from home, and so they agreed to contribute their share of the expense instead of ships. Whereby the Athenian navy was proportionally increased, while they themselves were always untrained and unpre- pared for war when they revolted. A little later the Athenians and their allies fought two 100 battles, one by land and the other The Athcnaus con- by sea, against the Persians, at the q'(cy in a sea and imtd river Eurymedon in Pamphylia. The ■S'/' '^"'f!^ ^-1?" •' r J uicdon. Revolt of I ha- Athenians, under the command of sos. Attempted cohnis- Cimon the son of Miltiades, on the aiion o/Amphipolis. same day conquered in both, and took and destroyed all the Phoenician triremes numbering two hundred. After a v/hile the Thasians revolted ; a quarrel had arisen H.c. 465. between them and the Athenians about the Thracian ^'- '^' '^• markets and the mine on the Thracian coast opposite, of which the Thasians received the profits. The Athenians sailed to Thasos and, gaining a victory at sea, landed upon the island. About the same time they sent ten thousand of their own people and of their allies to the Strymon, intending to colonise the place then called the Nine Ways and nowAmphipolis. They gained possession of the Nine Ways, which were inhabited by the Edoni, but, advancing into the interior of Thrace, they «were destroyed at Drabescus in Edonia by the united Thracians-, whose country was threatened by the new settlement. The Thasians, now blockaded after several defeats, had loi recourse to the Lacedaemonians and entreated them to " Or, reading ^i>7rai'Tfs, as Poppo is inclined to do, 'vra'c destroyed to a man by the Thracians.' F 2