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To this point Pasitelidas, the Lacedaemonian commander, with such garrison
as there was in the place, hurried to repel the Athenian assault; but finding himself hard pressed, and seeing the ships that had been sent
round sailing into the harbor, Pasitelidas began to be afraid that they
might get up to the city before its defenders were there, and the
fortification being also carried, he might be taken prisoner, and so
abandoned the outwork and ran into the town.
[2]
But the Athenians from the ships had already taken Torone, and their land
forces following at his heels burst in with him with a rush over the part of
the old wall that had been pulled down, killing some of the Peloponnesians
and Toronaeans in the melee, and making prisoners of the rest, and
Pasitelidas their commander amongst them.
[3]
Brasidas meanwhile had advanced to relieve Torone, and had only about four
miles more to go when he heard of its fall on the road, and turned back
again.
[4]
Cleon and the Athenians set up two trophies, one by the harbor, the other
by the fortification, and making slaves of the wives and children of the
Toronaeans, sent the men with the Peloponnesians and any Chalcidians that
were there, to the number of seven hundred, to Athens; whence, however, they all came home afterwards, the Peloponnesians on the
conclusion of peace, and the rest by being exchanged against other prisoners
with the Olynthians.
[5]
About the same time Panactum, a fortress on the Athenian border, was taken
by treachery by the Boeotians.
[6]
Meanwhile Cleon, after placing a garrison in Torone, weighed anchor and
sailed round Athos on his way to Amphipolis.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXXXII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXIX
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.75
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- Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache, Zweite Deklination.
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- Isocrates, Panathenaicus, Isoc. 12 63
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 4.132
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 5.18
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