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58.
The same summer Hagnon, son of Nicias, and
Cleopompus, son of Clinias, the colleagues of Pericles, took the armament of
which he had lately made use, and went off upon an expedition against the
Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace and Potidaea, which was still under
siege.
As soon as they arrived, they brought up their engines against Potidaea and
tried every means of taking it,
[2]
but did not succeed either in capturing the city or in doing anything else
worthy of their preparations.
For the plague attacked them here also, and committed such havoc as to
cripple them completely, even the previously healthy soldiers of the former
expedition catching the infection from Hagnon's troops; while Phormio and the sixteen hundred men whom he commanded only escaped by
being no longer in the neighborhood of the Chalcidians.
[3]
The end of it was that Hagnon returned with his ships to Athens, having
lost one thousand and fifty out of four thousand heavy infantry in about
forty days; though the soldiers stationed there before remained in the country and
carried on the siege of Potidaea.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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