r the Athenians also expelled the Aeginetans with their
wives and children from Aegina, on the ground of their having been the
chief agents in bringing the war upon them. Besides, Aegina lies so near
Peloponnese that it seemed safer to send colonists of their own to hold
it, and shortly afterwards the settlers were sent out. The banished
Aeginetans found an asylum in Thyrea, which was given to them by
Lacedaemon, not only on account of her quarrel with Athens, but also
because the Aeginetans had laid her under obligations at the time of the
earthquake and the revolt of the Helots. The territory of Thyrea is on
the frontier of Argolis and Laconia, reaching down to the sea. Those of
the Aeginetans who did not settle here were scattered over the rest of
Hellas.

The same summer, at the beginning of a new lunar month, the only time by
the way at which it appears possible, the sun was eclipsed after noon.
After it had assumed the form of a crescent and some of the stars had
come out, it returned to its natural shape.

During the same summer Nymphodorus, son of Pythes, an Abderite, whose
sister Sitalces had married, was made their proxenus by the Athenians
and sent for to Athens. They had hitherto considered him their enemy;
but he had great influence with Sitalces, and they wished this prince
to become their ally. Sitalces was the son of Teres and King of the
Thracians. Teres, the father of Sitalces, was the first to establish the
great kingdom of the Odrysians on a scale quite unknown to the rest of
Thrace, a large portion of the Thracians being independent. This Teres
is in no way related to Tereus who married Pandion's daughter Procne
from Athens; nor indeed did they belong to the same part of Thrace.
Tereus lived in Daulis, part of what is now called Phocis, but which at
that time was inhabited by Thracians. It was in this land that the
women perpetrated the outrage upon Itys; and many of the poets when they
mention the nightingale call it the Daulian bird. Besides, Pandion in
contracting an alliance for his daughter would consider the advantages
of mutual assistance, and would naturally prefer a match at the above
moderate distance to the journey of many days which separates Athens
from the Odrysians. Again the names are different; and this Teres was
king of the Odrysians, the first by the way who attained to any power.
Sitalces, his son, was now sought as an ally by the Athenians, who
desired his aid in the reduction