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100.2
And some time afterwards it came to pass that the Thasians revolted from them,465 B.C. a quarrel having arisen about the trading posts and the mineThe Thasians had a gold mine at Skapte Hyle on the Thracian coast, from which they drew rich revenues; cf. Hdt. 6.46 f. on the opposite coast of Thrace, of which the Thasians enjoyed the profits. Thereupon the Athenians sailed with their fleet against Thasos, and, after winning a battle at sea, disembarked on the island.
100.3
About the same time they sent to the river Strymon ten thousand colonists, consisting of Athenians and their allies, with a view to colonising the place, then called Nine Ways, but now Amphipolis; and though these colonists gained possession of Nine Ways, which was inhabited by Edoni, yet when they advanced into the interior of Thrace they were destroyed at Drabescus in Edonia by the united forces of the Thracians, to whom the settlement of the place was a menace.
101.1
As for the Thasians, who had been defeated in battle and were now besieged, they appealed to the Lacedaemonians and urged them to come to their aid by invading Attica.
101.2
This, unknown to the Athenians, they promised to do, and intended to keep their promise, but were prevented by the earthquakeCalled "the great earthquake" in Thuc. 1.128.1. which occurred at the time464 B.C. when both their Helots and the Perioeci of Thuria and Aethaea revolted and went to Ithome.The Perioeci were the old inhabitants of the country, chiefly of Achaean stock, reduced to a condition of dependence, i.e. were not citizens, though not state—slaves as the Helots were. Most of the Helots were the descendants of the early Messenians who had been enslaved of old,Referring to the mythical time of the first Messenian war. and hence were all called Messenians.
