194 TERPSICHORE.

measures. On account of this dissension between their
princes, the Spartans passed a law, forbidding both
their kings to march with the army at the same time.
They determined also, that one of the Tyndaride
should remain with- the prince who was left at home,
both of whom, till now, had accompanied them on
foreign expeditions. The rest of the confederates at
Eleusis, perceiving this disunion of the princes, and
the secession of the Corinthians, returned to their
respective homes.

LXXVI. This was the fourth time that the Dorians
had entered Attica, twice as enemies, and twice with
pacific and friendly views. Their first expedition was
to establish a colony at Megara, which was when
Codrus reigned at Athens. They came from Sparta
the second and third time to expel the Pisistratidae.
The fourth time was when Cleomenes and the Pelo-
ponnesians attacked Eleusis.

LXXVII. The Athenians, observing the adversa­
ry's army thus ignominiously diminish, gave place to
the desire of revenge, and determined first to attack
the Chalcidians, to assist whom the Boeotians ad­
vanced as far as the Euripus. On sight of them the
Athenians resolved to attack them before the Chalci­
dians; they accordingly gave them battle, and obtain­
ed a complete victory, killing a prodigious number,
and taking seven hundred prisoners. On the same
day they passed into Euboea, and fought the Chal­
cidians ; over these also they were victorious, and they
left a colony to the number of four thousand on the
lands of the Hippobotae, by which name the most opu­
lent of the Chalcidians were distinguished. Such of
these as they took prisoners, as well as their Boeotian
captives, they at first put in irons, and kept in close
confinement: they afterwards suffered them to be ran­
somed at two mime a man, suspending their chains
from the citadel. These were to be seen even within
my memory, hanging from the walls which were
burnt by the Medes, near the temple facing the west.
The tenth part of the money produced from the ran­
som of thoir prisoners was consecrated; with it they
purchased a chariot of brass for four horses: it was