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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EURYMEDON , one of the Athenian generals during the Peloponnesian See also:

War. In 428 B.C. he was sent by the Athenians to intercept the Peloponnesian See also:fleet which was on the way to attack Corcyra. On his arrival, finding that Nicostratus with a small See also:squadron from See also:Naupactus had already placed the See also:island in See also:security, he took the command of the combined fleet, which, owing to the See also:absence of the enemy, had no See also:chance of distinguishing itself. In the following summer, in See also:joint command of the See also:land forces, he ravaged the See also:district of Tanagra; and in 425 he was appointed, with See also:Sophocles, the son of Sostratides, to the command of an expedition destined for See also:Sicily. Having touched at Corcyra on the way, in See also:order to assist the democratic party against the oligarchical exiles, but without taking any steps to prevent the See also:massacre of the latter, Eurymedon proceeded to Sicily. Immediately after his arrival a pacification was concluded by Hermocrates, to which Eurymedon and Sophocles were induced to agree. The terms of the pacification did not, however, satisfy the Athenians, who attributed its conclusion to See also:bribery; two of the See also:chief agents in the negotiations were banished, while Eurymedon was sentenced to pay a heavy See also:fine. In 414 Eurymedon, who had been sent with See also:Demosthenes to reinforce the Athenians at the See also:siege of See also:Syracuse, was defeated and slain before reaching land (See also:Thucydides iii., iv., vii.; Diod. Sic. xiii.

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