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:"We are told, for example, that almost all Greece joined in a war between [[Chalcis]] and [[Eretria ]]about the Lelantine plain—a war alluded to as contemporary by Theognis, and concerning which even [[Aristotle]] still preserved anecdotes.  Historians have justly pointed out the inconceivability of all Greece being interested about some fields in [[Eubœa]], and that the rivalry of the two towns concerning settlements at the mouth of the [[Black Sea|Euxine]] was the real cause, while a local dispute was the occasion, of the war. The passage into the Black Sea was always of vast importance, as even in Attic days the toll levied for passing [[Byzantium]] formed a considerable item of revenue; and it appears that the Greek trading cities supported [[Chalcis]] or [[Eretria]] according as pre-existing treaties secured to them protection or immunity from either party. Thus the Lelantine War, a name unknown to our ordinary compendiums of Greek history, was a great war of traders, and in [[Thucydides]]' opinion (i. 15) the only general struggle throughout historical Greece previous to his own day.

:"We are told, for example, that almost all Greece joined in a war between [[Chalcis]] and [[Eretria ]]about the Lelantine plain—a war alluded to as contemporary by Theognis, and concerning which even [[Aristotle]] still preserved anecdotes.  Historians have justly pointed out the inconceivability of all Greece being interested about some fields in [[Eubœa]], and that the rivalry of the two towns concerning settlements at the mouth of the [[Black Sea|Euxine]] was the real cause, while a local dispute was the occasion, of the war. The passage into the Black Sea was always of vast importance, as even in Attic days the toll levied for passing [[Byzantium]] formed a considerable item of revenue; and it appears that the Greek trading cities supported [[Chalcis]] or [[Eretria]] according as pre-existing treaties secured to them protection or immunity from either party. Thus the Lelantine War, a name unknown to our ordinary compendiums of Greek history, was a great war of traders, and in [[Thucydides]]' opinion (i. 15) the only general struggle throughout historical Greece previous to his own day.

:These facts, as well as the innumerable speeches on commercial disputes left us by the orators, show that there was a strong trading instinct in the Greeks; and there were large portions of the community supported in this way; that it was, as now, the best avenue to wealth.<ref>Mahaffy, Rev. J. P. (1883).  ‘’Social Life in Greece from Homer to Meander’’ (London: Macmillan), pp. 385-6</ref>

:"These facts, as well as the innumerable speeches on commercial disputes left us by the orators, show that there was a strong trading instinct in the Greeks; and there were large portions of the community supported in this way; that it was, as now, the best avenue to wealth."<ref>Mahaffy, Rev. J. P. (1883).  ‘’Social Life in Greece from Homer to Meander’’ (London: Macmillan), pp. 385-6</ref>

Rufus B. Richardson disagrees that the Lelantine plain was not the object of the war adding,

Rufus B. Richardson disagrees that the Lelantine plain was not the object of the war adding,