hile the rest conferred with the
friends of the exiles, and restored the party at Pegae, after binding
them under solemn oaths to take no vengeance for the past, and only to
consult the real interests of the town. However, as soon as they were
in office, they held a review of the heavy infantry, and separating the
battalions, picked out about a hundred of their enemies, and of those
who were thought to be most involved in the correspondence with the
Athenians, brought them before the people, and compelling the vote to be
given openly, had them condemned and executed, and established a close
oligarchy in the town--a revolution which lasted a very long while,
although effected by a very few partisans.

CHAPTER XIV

_Eighth and Ninth Years of the War--Invasion of Boeotia--Fall of
Amphipolis--Brilliant Successes of Brasidas_

The same summer the Mitylenians were about to fortify Antandrus, as
they had intended, when Demodocus and Aristides, the commanders of the
Athenian squadron engaged in levying subsidies, heard on the Hellespont
of what was being done to the place (Lamachus their colleague having
sailed with ten ships into the Pontus) and conceived fears of its
becoming a second Anaia-the place in which the Samian exiles had
established themselves to annoy Samos, helping the Peloponnesians by
sending pilots to their navy, and keeping the city in agitation and
receiving all its outlaws. They accordingly got together a force from
the allies and set sail, defeated in battle the troops that met them
from Antandrus, and retook the place. Not long after, Lamachus, who had
sailed into the Pontus, lost his ships at anchor in the river Calex, in
the territory of Heraclea, rain having fallen in the interior and the
flood coming suddenly down upon them; and himself and his troops passed
by land through the Bithynian Thracians on the Asiatic side, and arrived
at Chalcedon, the Megarian colony at the mouth of the Pontus.

The same summer the Athenian general, Demosthenes, arrived at Naupactus
with forty ships immediately after the return from the Megarid.
Hippocrates and himself had had overtures made to them by certain men
in the cities in Boeotia, who wished to change the constitution and
introduce a democracy as at Athens; Ptoeodorus, a Theban exile, being
the chief mover in this intrigue. The seaport town of Siphae, in the bay
of Crisae, in the Thespian territory, was to be betrayed to them by one
party; Chaeronea (a d