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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Thucydides reports that in 414/13, after severe losses in Sicily, Nikias wrote to Athens, asking to be replaced in command and saying that it was necessary either to recall the expedition from the island or to send a new army as a reinforcement. The Athenians, however,
[When the Athenians had heard his letter,] instead of relieving him of his command, chose two members of the force in Sicily, Menandros and Euthydemos, to act as additional commanders until the selection and arrival of other colleagues, so that the position of sole commander would not cause Nikias suffering in his illness. They also voted to send another force, both military and naval, composed of Athenians on the muster-roll and of their allies. After the selection of Demosthenes, the son of Alkisthenes, and Eurymedon, the son of Thoukles, as Nikias' colleagues, they sent Eurymedon forthwith, around the winter solstice, to Sicily with ten ships and one hundred and twenty talents in silver …
page 230 note 1 Thuc. 7. 15.
page 230 note 3 Lines 6–11, as restored by Meritt, B. D., Athenian Financial Documents of the Fifth Century, pp. 88–89.Google Scholar
page 231 note 1 I.G. i2. 302, lines 73–76, for a text of which cf. Meritt, op. cit., pp. 160–3.
page 231 note 2 Aristokrates must have been in Athens since he also received funds for the force in Melos during the same prytany (I.G. i2. 302, lines 71–72).
page 231 note 3 The spelling 
occurs in I.G. i2. 938, line 13; 
- - in I.G. i2. 951, line 65. For the demotic of Eurymedon cf. Wade-Gery, H. T., ‘The Year of the Armistice, 423 B.C.’, C.Q..xxiv (1930), 33–39.Google Scholar
page 231 note 4 For the transfer of funds directly from the treasurers of Athena to one or more generals without the involvement of Helleno-tamiai or paredroi cf. I.G. i2. 295, lines 7–9 and 18–21; 296, lines 4–5 and 30–31; 302, lines 16–17 and 29–30; 324, lines 16–18, 20–21, 36–38, and 55–57; and possibly I.G. i2. 297, lines 11–13; for texts of these inscriptions cf. Meritt, op. cit., pp. 69, 80–81, 88–89, '36–43, and 160–3.
