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[2] after his death the colonists were driven out by the Thracians who are called Edones, and thirty-two years after this event the Athenians dispatched ten thousand colonists to the place. In like manner these colonists also were utterly destroyed by Thracians at Drabescus,1 and two years later2 the Athenians again recovered the city, under the leadership of Hagnon.

1 Cp. Book 11.70.5.

2 Twenty-nine years later, according to Thuc. 4.102.3.

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