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CAPTURE OF TORONE 103 resist, he marched with his army against the town, and sent ten ships to sail round into the harbour. First he came to the new line of wall which Brasidas had raised when, wanting to take in the suburbs, he broke down a part of the old wall and made the whole city one. But Pasitelidas, the Lacedaemonian governor, and the 3 garrison under his command came to jvhile Pasitelidas is the defence of this quarter of the town, de/endiug a suburb the and fought against their assailants, who f'^f^^'l^"^ ^^'J "f " ° ' the harbour and the pressed them hard. Meanwhile the town is taken. Betrayal Athenian fleet was sailing round into ofPanactum. the harbour, and Pasitelidas feared that the ships would take the city before he could return and defend it, and that the new fortifications would be captured and himself in them. So he left the suburb and ran back into the city. But the enemy were too quick ; the Athenians from the ships having taken Torone before he arrived ; while their infantry followed close upon him, and in a moment dashed in along with him at the breach in the old wall. Some of the Peloponnesians and Toronaeans were slain upon the spot, others were captured, and among them Pasitelidas the governor. Brasidas was on his way to the relief of Torone at the time, but, hearing that the place was taken, he stopped and returned ; he was within four miles and a half at the time of the capture. Cleon and the Athenians erected two trophies, one at the harbour and the other near the new wall. The women and children were made slaves ; the men of Torone and any other Chalcidians, together with the Peloponnesians, numbering in all seven hundred, were sent to Athens. The Pelo- ponnesian captives were liberated at the peace which was concluded shortly afterwards ; the rest were recovered by the Olynthians in exchange for a like number of the captives held by them. About the same time Panrxtum, a fortress on the Athenian frontier, was betrayed to the Boeotians. Cleon, putting a garrison into Torone, sailed round Mount Athos, intending to attack Amphipolis. VOL. II. 1