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70.
The same winter the Potidaeans at length
found themselves no longer able to hold out against their besiegers.
The inroads of the Peloponnesians into Attica had not had the desired
effect of making the Athenians raise the siege.
Provisions there were none left; and so far had distress for food gone in Potidaea that, besides a number of
other horrors, instances had even occurred of the people having eaten one
another.
So in this extremity they at last made proposals for capitulating to the
Athenian generals in command against them, Xenophon, son of Euripides,
Hestiodorus, son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus, son of Callimachus.
[2]
The generals accepted their proposals, seeing the sufferings of the army in
so exposed a position; besides which the state had already spent two thousand talents upon the
siege.
[3]
The terms of the capitulation were as follows: a free passage out for
themselves, their children, wives and auxiliaries, with one garment apiece,
the women with two, and a fixed sum of money for their journey.
[4]
Under this treaty they went out to Chalcidice and other places, according
as was in their power.
The Athenians, however, blamed the generals for granting terms without
instructions from home, being of opinion that the place would have had to
surrender at discretion.
They afterwards sent settlers of their own to Potidae, and colonized it.
Such were the events of the winter, and so ended the second year of this
war of which Thucydides was the historian.
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