Kitap 4
108.6
Above all, they were so moved by the pleasurable anticipations of the moment, and by the fact that they were now for the first time going to have a proof of what the Lacedaemonians would do when on their mettle, that they were ready to take any risk. Being aware of these things, the Athenians, so far as was possible at short notice and in the winter season, sent out garrisons among the cities; while Brasidas sent to Lacedaemon and urgently begged them to send him reinforcements, and was himself making preparations for building ships in the Strymon.
108.7
The Lacedaemonians, however, did not comply with his request, partly on account of the jealousy of the foremost men, partly also because they wished rather to recover the men taken on the island and to bring the war to an end.
109.1
The same winter the Megarians took and razed to the ground their long wallscf. 4.69.4. which the Athenians had held; and Brasidas, after the capture of Amphipolis, made an expedition with his allies against the district called Acte.
109.2
It is a promontory projecting from the King's canalXerxes' canal; cf. Hdt. vii. 22 ff. on the inner side of the isthmus, and its terminus at the Aegean Sea is the lofty Mt.
109.3
Athos. Of the cities it contains, one is Sane, an Andrian colony close to the canal, facing the sea which is toward Euboea; the others are Thyssus, Cleonae, Acrothoi, Olophyxus and Dium, which are inhabited by mixed barbarian tribes speaking two languages.
109.4
There is in it also a small Chalcidic element; but the greatest part is Pelasgic—belonging to those Etruscans that once inhabited Lemnos and AthensAccording to Herodotus (vi. 137 ff.), they were expelled from Attica, and afterwards, by Miltiades, from Lemnos.—Bisaltic, Crestonic, and Edonian; and they live in small towns.
109.5
Most of these yielded to Brasidas, but Sane and Dium held out against him; so he waited there with his army and laid waste their territory.
