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Accordingly the people immediately voted to construct a hundred triremes and dockyards to accommodate their number,1 and to urge the peoples of Rhodes, Chios, and Byzantium to assist their schemes.2 Epameinondas himself, who had been dispatched with a force to the aforementioned cities, so overawed Laches, the Athenian general, who had a large fleet and had been sent out to circumvent the Thebans, that he forced him to sail away and made the cities friendly to Thebes.

1 Demosthenes says (Dem. 14.22) that one dockyard accommodated thirty ships. Certainly the dockyards cannot be equal in number, ἴσα τὸν ἀριθμόν, as Diodorus says. Post suggests that Diodorus may be using νεώρια in the sense of νεωσοίκους (slips).

2 The attempt of Epameinondas to wrest naval supremacy from Athens is recounted by Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.105. See Isoc. 5.53 and Plut. Philopoemen 14.1, 2.

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