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102.
The same winter Brasidas, with his allies in
the Thracian places, marched against Amphipolis, the Athenian colony on the
river Strymon.
[2]
A settlement upon the spot on which the city now stands, was before
attempted by Aristagoras, the Milesian （when he fled from king
Darius）, who was however dislodged by the Edonians; and thirty-two years later by the Athenians, who sent thither ten thousand
settlers of their own citizens, and whoever else chose to go.
These were cut off at Drabescus by the Thracians.
[3]
Twenty-nine years after, the Athenians returned （Hagnon, son of
Nicias, being sent out as a leader of the colony） and drove out the Edonians, and founded a town on the spot, formerly called
Ennea-hodoi or Nine Ways.
The base from which they started was Eion, their commercial seaport at the
mouth of the river, not more than three miles from the present town, which
Hagnon named Amphipolis, because the Strymon flows round it on two sides,
and he built it so as to be conspicuous from the sea and land alike, running
a long wall across from river to river, to complete the circumference.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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