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29.
During the same summer Nymphodorus, son of
Pythes, an Abderite, whose sister Sitalces had married, was made their
Proxenus by the Athenians and sent for to Athens.
They had hitherto considered him their enemy; but he had great influence with Sitalces, and they wished this prince to
become their ally.
Sitalces was the son of Teres and king of the Thracians.
[2]
Teres, the father of Sitalces, was the first to establish the great kingdom
of the Odrysians on a scale quite unknown to the rest of Thrace, a large
portion of the Thracians being independent.
[3]
This Teres is in no way related to Tereus who married Pandion's daughter
Procne from Athens; nor indeed did they belong to the same part of Thrace.
Tereus lived in Daulis, part of what is now called Phocis, but which at
that time was inhabited by Thracians.
It was in this land that the women perpetrated the outrage upon Itys; and many of the poets when they mention the nightingale call it the Daulian
bird.
Besides, Pandion in contracting an alliance for his daughter would consider
the advantages of mutual assistance, and would naturally prefer a match at
the above moderate distance to the journey of many days which separates
Athens from the Odrysians.
Again the names are different; and this Teres was king of the Odrysians, the first by the way who attained
to any power.
[4]
Sitalces, his son, was now sought as an ally by the Athenians, who desired
his aid in the reduction of the Thracian towns and of Perdiccas.
[5]
Coming to Athens, Nymphodorus concluded the alliance with Sitalces and made
his son Sadocus an Athenian citizen, and promised to finish the war in
Thrace by persuading Sitalces to send the Athenians a force of Thracian
horse and targeteers.
[6]
He also reconciled them with Perdiccas, and induced them to restore Therme
to him; upon which Perdiccas at once joined the Athenians and Phormio in an
expedition against the Chalcidians.
[7]
Thus Sitalces, son of Teres, king of the Thracians, and Perdiccas, son of
Alexander, king of the Macedonians, became allies of Athens.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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