61.
The news of the revolt in Chalcidicè quickly reached Athens,
and the
Athenians, when they1 heard that Aristeus had come with reinforcements, sent against the revolted
towns forty ships and two thousand of their own hoplites under the command of Callias
the son of Calliades, and four others.
[2]
The expedition, sailing first of all to Macedonia, found that the former thousand had
just taken Thermè and were blockading Pydna;
[3]
they joined in the siege themselves;
but before long the Athenian army were constrained
to come to an understanding and make an alliance with Perdiccas. For Potidaea, now that Aristeus had arrived, urgently demanded their presence; so they
prepared to quit Macedonia.
[4]
They first marched out of their way to Beroea, which they attempted to take without
success. Returning to their route, they moved on by land towards Potidaea with three thousand
hoplites of their own and a large force of allies; they had also six hundred Macedonian
horse, who fought under Philip and Pausanias;
meanwhile their ships, in number seventy,
sailed along the coast.
[5]
Proceeding by slow marches, they arrived on the third day at Gigonus and there
encamped.
1 Athenian reinforcements under Callias arrive in Macedonia; the Athenians make a temporary peace with Perdiccas and move on to Potidaea.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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