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Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XII, Chapter 72 (search)
pirius and Lucius Junius. In this year the people of Scione, holding the Athenians in contempt because of their d on all other matters, but both of them laid claim to Scione.This city, on the promontory of Pallene, revolted to Brasid continued their war against each other over the issue of Scione. At this time the city of MendeOn the Thermaic Gulf west of Scione. also revolted to the Lacedaemonians and made the quarrel over Scione the more bitter. ConseqScione the more bitter. Consequently Brasidas removed the children and women and all the most valuable property from Mende and Scione and safeguardedScione and safeguarded the cities with strong garrisons, whereupon the Athenians, being incensed at what had taken place, voted to put tain men who betrayed it; then they threw a wall about Scione, settled down to a siege, and launched unceasing assaults upon it. But the garrison of Scione, which was strong in numbers and abundantly provided with missiles and f
Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XII, Chapter 73 (search)
he Delians of secretly concluding an alliance with the Lacedaemonians, expelled them from the island and took their city for their own. To the Delians who had been expelled the satrap Pharniaces gave the city of AdramytiumOn the coast of Asia Minor north-east of Lesbos. to dwell in. The Athenians elected as general Cleon, the leader of the popular party, and supplying him with a strong body of infantry sent him to the regions lying off Thrace. He sailed to Scione, where he added to his force soldiers from the besiegers of the city, and then sailed away and put in at Torone; for he knew that Brasidas had gone from these parts and that the soldiers who were left in Torone were not strong enough to offer battle. After encamping near Torone and besieging the city both by land and by sea, he took it by storm, and the children and women he sold into slavery, but the men who garrisoned the city he took captive, fettered them,
Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XII, Chapter 76 (search)
of them with kindly treatment. The Athenians, on the contrary, desiring to strike with fear those whom they suspected of planning secession, displayed an example for all to see in the punishment they inflicted on the inhabitants of Scione; for after reducing them by siege, they put to the sword all of them from the youth upwards, sold into slavery the children and women, and gave the islandScione was a cherso-nesos ("near-island"). to the Plataeans to dwell in, sincScione was a cherso-nesos ("near-island"). to the Plataeans to dwell in, since they had been expelled from their native land on account of the Athenians.See chap. 56. In the course of this year in Italy the Campanians advanced against Cyme with a strong army, defeated the Cymaeans in battle, and destroyed the larger part of the opposing forces. And settling down to a siege, they launched a number of assaults upon the city and took it by storm. They then plundered the city, sold into slavery the captured prisoners, and selected an adequ