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129.
On his return from Macedonia to Torone,
Brasidas found the Athenians already masters of Mende, and remained quiet
where he was, thinking it now out of his power to cross over into Pallene
and assist the Mendaeans, but he kept good watch over Torone.
[2]
For about the same time as the campaign in Lyncus, the Athenians sailed
upon the expedition which we left them preparing against Mende and Scione,
with fifty ships, ten of which were Chians, one thousand Athenian heavy
infantry and six hundred archers, one hundred Thracian mercenaries and some
targeteers drawn from their allies in the neighbourhood, under the command
of Nicias, son of Niceratus, and Nicostratus, son of Diitrephes.
[3]
Weighing from Potidaea, the fleet came to land opposite the temple of
Poseidon, and proceeded against Mende; the men of which town, reinforced by three hundred Scionaeans, with their
Peloponnesians auxiliaries, seven hundred heavy infantry in all, under
Polydamidas, they found encamped upon a strong hill outside the city.
[4]
These Nicias, with one hundred and twenty light-armed Methonaeans, sixty
picked men from the Athenian heavy infantry, and all the archers, tried to
reach by a path running up the hill, but received a wound and found himself
unable to force the position; while Nicostratus, with all the rest of the army, advancing upon the hill,
which was naturally difficult, by a different approach further off, was
thrown into utter disorder; and the whole Athenian army narrowly escaped being defeated.
[5]
For that day, as the Mendaeans and their allies showed no signs of
yielding, the Athenians retreated and encamped, and the Mendaeans at
nightfall returned into the town.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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