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The people of Chalcis and almost all the rest of the inhabitants of Euboea had revolted from the Athenians1 and were therefore highly apprehensive lest, living as they did on an island, they should be forced to surrender to the Athenians, who were masters of the sea; and they therefore asked the Boeotians to join with them in building a causeway across the Euripus and thereby joining Euboea to Boeotia.2

1 Soon after the Athenian disaster at Syracuse (Thuc. 8.95).

2 Strabo (Strabo 9.2.2) quotes Ephorus to the effect that a bridge only two plethra (202 ft.) long spanned the Euripus at Chalcis.

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