Book 10
1.8
These cities, Eretria and Chalcis, when their population was greatly augmented, sent out considerable colonies to Macedonia, for Eretria founded cities about Pallene and Mount Athos; Chalcis founded some near Olynthus, which Philip destroyed. There are also many settlements in Italy and Sicily, founded by Chalcidians. These colonies were sent out, according to Aristotle,Repub. b. iv. c. 3. when the government of the Hippobatae, (or Knights,) as it is called, was established; it was an aristocratical government, the heads of which held their office by virtue of the amount of their property. At the time that Alexander passed over into Asia, they enlarged the compass of the walls of their city, including within them Canethus,According to the Scholiast in Apollon. Rhod. Argon. b i. v. 7, Canethus was a mountain on the Boeotian side of the Euripus. and the Euripus, and erected towers upon the bridge, a wall, and gates.
