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130.
The next day the Athenians sailed round to
the Scione side and took the suburb, and all day plundered the country,
without any one coming out against them, partly because of intestine
disturbances in the town; and the following night the three hundred Scionaeans returned home.
[2]
On the morrow Nicias advanced with half the army to the frontier of Scione
and laid waste the country; while Nicostratus with the remainder sat down before the town near the
upper gate on the road to Potidaea.
[3]
The arms of the Mendaeans and of their Peloponnesian auxiliaries within the
wall happened to be piled in that quarter, where Polydamidas accordingly
began to draw them up for battle, encouraging the Mendaeans to make a
sortie.
[4]
At this moment one of the popular party answered him factiously that they
would not go out and did not want a war, and for thus answering was dragged
by the arm and knocked about by Polydamidas.
Hereupon the infuriated commons at once seized their arms and rushed at the
Peloponnesians and at their allies of the opposite faction.
[5]
The troops thus assaulted were at once routed, partly from the suddenness
of the conflict and partly through fear of the gates being opened to the
Athenians, with whom they imagined that the attack had been concerted.
[6]
As many as were not killed on the spot took refuge in the citadel, which
they had held from the first; and the whole Athenian army, Nicias having by this time returned and being
close to the city, now burst into Mende, which had opened its gates without
any convention, and sacked it just as if they had taken it by storm, the
generals even finding some difficulty in restraining them from also
massacring the inhabitants.
[7]
After this the Athenians told the Mendaeans that they might retain their
civil rights, and themselves judge the supposed authors of the revolt; and cut off the party in the citadel by a wall built down to the sea on
either side, appointing troops to maintain the blockade.
Having thus secured Mende, they proceeded against Scione.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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