ps those that had landed, killing some and
taking others prisoners; after which they set up a trophy, and gave back
the dead under truce.

About the same time with the affair of Delium took place the death
of Sitalces, king of the Odrysians, who was defeated in battle, in a
campaign against the Triballi; Seuthes, son of Sparadocus, his nephew,
succeeding to the kingdom of the Odrysians, and of the rest of Thrace
ruled by Sitalces.

The same winter Brasidas, with his allies in the Thracian places,
marched against Amphipolis, the Athenian colony on the river Strymon.
A settlement upon the spot on which the city now stands was before
attempted by Aristagoras, the Milesian (when he fled from King Darius),
who was however dislodged by the Edonians; and thirty-two years later
by the Athenians, who sent thither ten thousand settlers of their own
citizens, and whoever else chose to go. These were cut off at Drabescus
by the Thracians. Twenty-nine years after, the Athenians returned
(Hagnon, son of Nicias, being sent out as leader of the colony) and
drove out the Edonians, and founded a town on the spot, formerly called
Ennea Hodoi or Nine Ways. The base from which they started was Eion,
their commercial seaport at the mouth of the river, not more than three
miles from the present town, which Hagnon named Amphipolis, because
the Strymon flows round it on two sides, and he built it so as to be
conspicuous from the sea and land alike, running a long wall across from
river to river, to complete the circumference.

Brasidas now marched against this town, starting from Arne in
Chalcidice. Arriving about dusk at Aulon and Bromiscus, where the lake
of Bolbe runs into the sea, he supped there, and went on during the
night. The weather was stormy and it was snowing a little, which
encouraged him to hurry on, in order, if possible, to take every one at
Amphipolis by surprise, except the party who were to betray it. The plot
was carried on by some natives of Argilus, an Andrian colony, residing
in Amphipolis, where they had also other accomplices gained over by
Perdiccas or the Chalcidians. But the most active in the matter were the
inhabitants of Argilus itself, which is close by, who had always been
suspected by the Athenians, and had had designs on the place. These men
now saw their opportunity arrive with Brasidas, and having for some
time been in correspondence with their countrymen in Amphipolis for the
betrayal of the town, at on