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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 4, chapter 109 (search)
The same winter the Megarians took and razed
to the foundations the long walls which had been occupied by the Athenians; and Brasidas after the capture of Amphipolis marched with his allies
against Acte,
a promontory running out from the king's dike with an inward curve, and
ending in Athos, a lofty mountain looking towards the Aegean sea.
In it are various towns, Sane, an Andrian colony, close to the canal, and
facing the sea in the direction of Euboea; the others being Thyssus, Cleone, Acrothoi, Olophyxus,
and Dium, inhabited by mixed barbarian races speaking the two languages.
There is also a small Chalcidian element; but the greater number are Tyrrheno-Pelasgians once settled in Lemnos and
Athens, and Bisaltians, Cr
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 5, chapter 3 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 5, chapter 35 (search)
The same summer the Dians took Thyssus, a
town on Acte by Athos in alliance with Athens.
During the whole of this summer intercourse between the Athenians and
Peloponnesians continued, although each party began to suspect the other
directly after the treaty, because of the places specified in it not being
restored.
Lacedaemon, to whose lot it had fallen to begin by restoring Amphipolis and
the other towns, had not done so.
She had equally failed to get the treaty accepted by her Thracian allies,
or by the Boeotians or the Corinthians; although she was continually promising to unite with Athens in compelling
their compliance, if it were longer refused.
She also kept fixing a time
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 5, chapter 82 (search)
The next summer the people of Dium, in Athos, revolted from the Athenians
to the Chalcidians, and the Lacedaemonians settled affairs in Achaea in a
way more agreeable to the interests of their country.
Meanwhile the popular party at Argos little by little gathered new
consistency and courage, and waited for the moment of the Gymnopaedic
festival at Lacedaemon, and then fell upon the oligarchs.
After a fight in the city victory declared for the commons, who slew some
of their opponents and banished others.
The Lacedaemonians for a long while let the messages of their friends at
Argos remain without effect.
At last they put off the Gymnopaediae and marched to their succor, but
learning at Tegea the defeat