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While these events were taking place Thrasybulus, the
Athenian general, sailing to Thasos with fifteen ships
defeated in battle the troops who came out from the city and slew about two hundred of them;
then, having bottled them up in a siege of the city, he forced them to receive back their
exiles, that is the men who favoured the Athenians, to accept a garrison, and to be allies of
the Athenians. After this, sailing to Abdera,The birthplace
of the great Greek physical philosopher Democritus. he brought that city, which at that
time was among the most powerful in Thrace, over to
the side of the Athenians.Now the foregoing is what the Athenian
generals had accomplished since they sailed from Athens. But Agis, the king of the Lacedaemonians,
as it happened, was at the time in DeceleiaThe fortress
in Attica which the Lacedaemonians, on the advice of
Alcibiades (cp. chap. 9.2), had permanently occupied. with his army, and when