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6.
Cleon, whom we left on his voyage from Torone
to Amphipolis, made Eion his base, and after an unsuccessful assault upon
the Andrian colony of Stagirus, took Galepsus, a colony of Thasos, by storm.
[2]
He now sent envoys to Perdiccas to command his attendance with an army, as
provided by the alliance; and others to Thrace, to Polles, king of the Odomantians, who was to bring
as many Thracian mercenaries as possible; and himself remained inactive in Eion, awaiting their arrival.
[3]
Informed of this, Brasidas on his part took up a position of observation
upon Cerdylium, a place situated in the Argilian country on high ground
across the river, not far from Amphipolis, and commanding a view on all
sides, and thus made it impossible for Cleon's army to move without his
seeing it; for he fully expected that Cleon, despising the scanty numbers of his
opponent, would march against Amphipolis with the force that he had got with
him.
[4]
At the same time Brasidas made his preparations, calling to his standard
fifteen hundred Thracian mercenaries, and all the Edonians, horse and
targeteers; he also had a thousand Myrcinian and Chalcidian targeteers, besides those
in Amphipolis,
[5]
and a force of heavy infantry numbering altogether about two thousand, and
three hundred Hellenic horse.
Fifteen hundred of these he had with him upon Cerdylium; the rest were stationed with Clearidas in Amphipolis.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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