Thasos

on which occasion also they saw the Helots, and the Thurians and oethieans amongst the Perioeci, establish themselves in revolt at Ithome.

The Thasians, having been conquered in some engagements, and being invested, called the Lacedaemonians to their aid, and desired that they would assist them by invading Attica.

Some time after it happened that the Thasians revolted from them, having quarrelled about the marts on the opposite coast of Thrace and the mine of which they were in possession.

At about this time a revolution took place in Thasos, and the partisans of Lacedaemon and the Laconian governor Eteonicus were driven out of the island.

Thrasybulus, however, with thirty ships, went off to the Thracian coast, where he reduced all the places which had revolted to the Lacedaemonians, and especially Thasos, which was in a bad state on account of wars and revolutions and famine.

When they had arrived there and he was on the point of putting out to sea for battle, Theramenes sailed in from Macedonia with a reinforcement of twenty ships, and at the same time Thrasybulus arrived from Thasos with twenty more, both of them having been engaged in collecting money.

And Xanthus the Lydian says Thasos was founded about the eighteenth Olympiad (but Dionysius says about the fifteenth), so that it is evident that Archilochus was already known after the twentieth Olympiad.

Wine is carried to Pontus from places around us, from Peparethus, and Cos, and Thasos and Mendê, and from all sorts of other places;

Suppose at the present day a party of those in power at Pydna or Potidaea or any of those other places which are subject to Philip and hostile to you— just as Thasos and Byzantium then were friendly to the Lacedaemonians and estranged from you—promised to hand them over to you in return for the same rewards that you gave to Ecphantus of Thasos and Archebius of Byzantium;

In the first place, then, will you not wrong the Thasian supporters of Ecphantus, if you revoke their immunity—I mean the men who handed over Thasos to you by expelling the armed garrison of the Lacedaemonians and admitting Thrasybulus, and thus, by bringing their own country on to your side, were the means of winning for you the alliance of the district bordering on Thrace?

So, when the sailors came on board, I ordered the pilot to sail back to Thasos.

When we reached Thasos the next day, Timomachus sent for me to come to the place where he lodged outside the wall.

When it was manned, Callippus, the son of Philon, of Aexonê, came on board, and ordered the pilot to steer the course for Macedonia.

You have the advantage of winter bases for your troops in Lemnos, Thasos, Sciathos, and the neighboring islands, where are to be found harbors, provisions, and everything that an army needs;

and now, by a strange coincidence, those thorough-going enemies of Athens, Aristratus at Naxos and Aristolaus at Thasos, are bringing the friends of Athens to trial, while at Athens itself Aeschines is accusing Demosthenes.

Then Histiaeus brought a great force of Ionians and Aeolians against Thasos.

Their fleet subdued the Thasians, who did not so much as lift up their hands against it;

These Phoenician mines are between the place called Aenyra and Coenyra in Thasos, opposite Samothrace;