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Brasidas, taking an adequate force from Lacedaemon and the other Peloponnesian states, advanced against Megara. And striking terror into the Athenians he expelled
them from Nisaea, and then he set free the city of
the Megarians and brought it back into the alliance of the Lacedaemonians. After this he made
his way with his army through Thessaly and came to Dium in Macedonia. From there he advanced against
Acanthus and associated himself with the cause of the Chalcidians. The city of the Acanthians
was the first which he brought, partly through fear and partly through kindly and persuasive
arguments, to revolt from the Athenians; and afterwards he induced many also of the other
peoples of Thrace to join the alliance of the
Lacedaemonians. After this Brasidas, wishing to prosecute the
war more vigorously, proceeded to summon soldiers from Lacedaemon, since he was eager to gather a strong army. And the Spartans, wishing
to destroy the most
While these events were taking place, the Megarians seized Nisaea, which was in the hands of Athenians, and the
Athenians dispatched against them Leotrophides and Timarchus with a thousand infantry and four
hundred cavalry. The Megarians went out to meet them en masse under arms, and
after adding to their number some of the troops from Sicily they drew up for battle near the hills called "The Cerata.""The Horns," lying opposite Salamis on the border between Attica
and Megara (cp. Strabo
9.1.11).
Since the Athenians fought brilliantly and put to flight the
enemy, who greatly outnumbered them, many of the Megarians were slain but only twenty
LacedaemoniansPerhaps here and just below "Sicilian
Greeks" should be read for "Lacedaemonians," since the latter have not been mentioned as being
present.; for the Athenians, made angry by the seizure of Nisaea, did not pursue the Lacedaemonians but slew great
numbers of the Megarians with