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60. Now that Potidaea had revolted and the Athenian ships were on the coast of Macedonia, the1 Corinthians grew anxious about the town; they felt that the danger came home to them, and despatched thither volunteers of their own and other troops whom they attracted by pay from various parts of the Peloponnese, numbering in all sixteen hundred hoplites and four hundred light-armed. [2] Their commander was Aristeus the son of Adeimantus, who had always been a great friend of the Potidaeans; it was mainly out of regard for him that most of the Corinthian soldiers volunteered on the expedition. [3] They arrived in Chalcidicè forty days after the revolt of Potidaea.

1 The Corinthians send troops to the aid of Potidaea under the command of Aristeus.

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