ward
amid the loud hurrahs of his men, which carried dismay among the
astonished townspeople. Some burst in straight by the gate, others over
some square pieces of timber placed against the wall (which has fallen
down and was being rebuilt) to draw up stones; Brasidas and the greater
number making straight uphill for the higher part of the town, in order
to take it from top to bottom, and once for all, while the rest of the
multitude spread in all directions.

The capture of the town was effected before the great body of the
Toronaeans had recovered from their surprise and confusion; but
the conspirators and the citizens of their party at once joined the
invaders. About fifty of the Athenian heavy infantry happened to be
sleeping in the market-place when the alarm reached them. A few of these
were killed fighting; the rest escaped, some by land, others to the two
ships on the station, and took refuge in Lecythus, a fort garrisoned by
their own men in the corner of the town running out into the sea and
cut off by a narrow isthmus; where they were joined by the Toronaeans of
their party.

Day now arrived, and the town being secured, Brasidas made a
proclamation to the Toronaeans who had taken refuge with the Athenians,
to come out, as many as chose, to their homes without fearing for their
rights or persons, and sent a herald to invite the Athenians to accept a
truce, and to evacuate Lecythus with their property, as being Chalcidian
ground. The Athenians refused this offer, but asked for a truce for a
day to take up their dead. Brasidas granted it for two days, which he
employed in fortifying the houses near, and the Athenians in doing
the same to their positions. Meanwhile he called a meeting of the
Toronaeans, and said very much what he had said at Acanthus, namely,
that they must not look upon those who had negotiated with him for the
capture of the town as bad men or as traitors, as they had not acted as
they had done from corrupt motives or in order to enslave the city, but
for the good and freedom of Torone; nor again must those who had not
shared in the enterprise fancy that they would not equally reap its
fruits, as he had not come to destroy either city or individual. This
was the reason of his proclamation to those that had fled for refuge to
the Athenians: he thought none the worse of them for their friendship
for the Athenians; he believed that they had only to make trial of the
Lacedaemonians to like them a