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Brasidas, confiding in the multitude of his soldiers,
now advanced with his army against the city known as Amphipolis. This city Aristagoras of Miletus at an earlier time had undertaken to found as a colony,In 497 B.C.; cp. Hdt. 5.126. when he was fleeing from Darius, the king of the
Persians; 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,Cp. Book 11.70.5. and two years laterTwenty-nine years later, according to Thuc.
4.102.3. the Athenians again recovered the city, under the leadership of Hagnon.
Since the city had been the object of many a battle, Brasidas
was eager to master it. Consequently he set out against it with a strong force, and pitching
his camp near the bridge,Over the Strymon River and not
far fro