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432 B.CWhen Pythodorus was archon in Athens, the
Romans elected as consuls Titus Quinctius and Nittus Menenius, and the Eleians celebrated the
Eighty-seventh Olympiad, that in which Sophron of Ambracia won the "stadion." In Rome in this year Spurius Maelius was put to death
while striving for despotic power. And the Athenians, who had won a striking victory around
Potidaea, dispatched a second general, Phormion, in
the place of their general Callias who had fallen on the field. After taking over the command
of the army Phormion settled down to the siege of the city of the Potidaeans, making continuous
assaults upon it; but the defenders resisted with vigour and the siege became a long affair.
Thucydides, the Athenian,
commenced his history with this year, giving an account of the war between the Athenians and
the Lacedaemonians, the war which has been called the Peloponnesian. This war lasted
twenty-seven years, but Thucydides de