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While these things were going on, the inhabitants of Euboea fell into strife among themselves, and when one party summoned the Boeotians to its assistance and the other the Athenians, war broke out over all Euboea. A good many close combats and skirmishes occurred in which sometimes the Thebans were superior and sometimes the Athenians carried off the victory. Although no important pitched battle was fought to a finish, yet when the island had been devastated by the intestinal warfare and many men had been slain on both sides, at long last admonished by the disasters, the parties came to an agreement and made peace with one another.1

Now the Boeotians returned home and remained quiet,

1 Diodorus has placed the Euboean war wrongly in the archonship of Cephisodotus (358/7). The war lasted only thirty days according to Aeschin. 3.85 and occurred under Agathocles (357/6). Diocles was the Athenian commander (Dem. 21.174) and he was general in 357/6 (Dittenberger, Sylloge, 1（3）. 190.23 and note 9). The treaty of peace is also dated under the archonship of Agathocles (ibid. 20 = IG, 2（2）. 124). That the Social War had already begun is proved by the intentional erasure of Chabrias' (chap. 7.3) name from this inscription. He was no longer general when the treaty was signed since he had fallen at Chios. For discussion see Beloch, Griechische Geschichte （2）, 3.2.258 and 3.1.238, note 2.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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