ain looking towards the Aegean Sea. In it are
various towns, Sane, an Andrian colony, close to the canal, and facing
the sea in the direction of Euboea; the others being Thyssus, Cleone,
Acrothoi, Olophyxus, and Dium, inhabited by mixed barbarian races
speaking the two languages. There is also a small Chalcidian element;
but the greater number are Tyrrheno-Pelasgians once settled in Lemnos
and Athens, and Bisaltians, Crestonians, and Edonians; the towns being
all small ones. Most of these came over to Brasidas; but Sane and Dium
held out and saw their land ravaged by him and his army.

Upon their not submitting, he at once marched against Torone in
Chalcidice, which was held by an Athenian garrison, having been invited
by a few persons who were prepared to hand over the town. Arriving in
the dark a little before daybreak, he sat down with his army near the
temple of the Dioscuri, rather more than a quarter of a mile from the
city. The rest of the town of Torone and the Athenians in garrison did
not perceive his approach; but his partisans knowing that he was coming
(a few of them had secretly gone out to meet him) were on the watch for
his arrival, and were no sooner aware of it than they took it to them
seven light-armed men with daggers, who alone of twenty men ordered
on this service dared to enter, commanded by Lysistratus an Olynthian.
These passed through the sea wall, and without being seen went up and
put to the sword the garrison of the highest post in the town, which
stands on a hill, and broke open the postern on the side of Canastraeum.

Brasidas meanwhile came a little nearer and then halted with his main
body, sending on one hundred targeteers to be ready to rush in first,
the moment that a gate should be thrown open and the beacon lighted as
agreed. After some time passed in waiting and wondering at the delay,
the targeteers by degrees got up close to the town. The Toronaeans
inside at work with the party that had entered had by this time broken
down the postern and opened the gates leading to the market-place by
cutting through the bar, and first brought some men round and let
them in by the postern, in order to strike a panic into the surprised
townsmen by suddenly attacking them from behind and on both sides at
once; after which they raised the fire-signal as had been agreed, and
took in by the market gates the rest of the targeteers.

Brasidas seeing the signal told the troops to rise, and dashed for