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84. During the same summer, immediately on his return from Lyncus, and a little before the1 vintage, Brasidas, reinforced by Chalcidian troops, marched against Acanthus, a colony of Andros. [2] The inhabitants of the city were not agreed about admitting him; those who in concert with the Chalcidians had invited him being opposed to the mass of the people. So he asked them to receive him alone, and hear what he had to say before they decided; and to this request the multitude, partly out of fear for their still ungathered vintage, were induced to consent. Whereupon, coming forward to the people (and for a Lacedaemonian he was not a bad speaker), he addressed them as follows:—

1 Brasidas is admitted into Acanthus and addresses the citizens.

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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