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But Pasitelidas, the Lacedaemonian governor, and the garrison under his command came to1 the defence of this quarter of the town, and fought against their assailants, who pressed them hard. Meanwhile the Athenian fleet was sailing round into the harbour, and Pasitelidas feared that the ships would take the city before he could return and defend it, and that the new fortifications would be captured and himself in them. So he left the suburb and ran back into the city.
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But the enemy were too quick; the Athenians from the ships having taken Toronè before he arrived; while their infantry followed close upon him, and in a moment dashed in along with him at the breach in the old wall. Some of the Peloponnesians and Toronaeans were slain upon the spot, others were captured, and among them Pasitelidas the governor.
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Brasidas was on his way to the relief of Toronè at the time, but, hearing that the place was taken, he stopped and returned;
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he was within four miles and a half at the time of the capture. Cleon and the Athenians erected two trophies, one at the harbour and the other near the new wall. The women and children were made slaves; the men of Toronè and any other Chalcidians, together with the Peloponnesians, numbering in all seven hundred, were sent to Athens. The Peloponnesian captives were liberated at the peace which was concluded shortly afterwards; the rest were recovered by the Olynthians in exchange for a like number of the captives held by them. About the same time Panactum, a fortress on the Athenian frontier, was betrayed to the Boeotians.
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Cleon, putting a garrison into Toronè, sailed round Mount Athos, intending to attack Amphipolis.
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While Pasitelidas is defending a suburb the Athenian flee sails into the harbour and the town is taken. Betrayal of Panactum.
1 While Pasitelidas is defending a suburb the Athenian flee sails into the harbour and the town is taken. Betrayal of Panactum.
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