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[7] As a result the Athenians, much vexed at the occurrence, voted that the truce had been broken by the Lacedaemonians.1 They then decided to make war on them and chose three of their most distinguished citizens as generals, Timotheus,2 Chabrias, and Callistratus.3 They voted to levy twenty thousand hoplites and five hundred cavalry, and to man two hundred ships. They likewise admitted the Thebans into the common council on terms equal in all respects.4

1 Cp. Xen. Hell. 5.4.34; Plut. Pelopidas 15.

2 Conon's son Timotheus was successful as general and as statesman from this time on till his death in 354.

3 Callistratus of Aphidna, though one of the opponents of the King's Peace (see Book 14.110.2-3), had come to see that Athens had no other choice. One of the most brilliant orators of this period, he was a keen politician and a skilful finance administrator.

4 Cp. Xen. Hell. 5.4.34, Plut. Pelopidas 15. For the League see chap. 28.4.

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