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[5] Chabrias, in command of the force dispatched by the Athenians,1laid waste Hestiaeotis, and, fortifying its Metropolis, as it is called, which is situated on a naturally steep hill, left a garrison in it, and then sailed to the Cyclades and won over Peparethos and Sciathos and some other islands which had been subject to the Lacedaemonians.

1 According to Plut. De Gloria Atheniensium 8, Timotheus, not Chabrias, freed Euboea.

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