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42 ATHENIAN ATTACK ON THYREA [iV also because they had always been partisans of theirs, although subjects of the Athenians. 57 Before the Athenian ships had actually touched, the ^ , . . Aeginetans quitted a fort on the sea- Athcman attack upon , i • i i • i -i i- Thyrea,ivhe,etheAcgin- shore which they Were just building and rtan exiles ate settled, retired to the upper city, where they The Lacedaemonian ]|^.g^^ ^ distance of rather more than gamsons refuse to enter -t /-^ r the toivn,-aHch is taken, ^ "t'c. One of the country garrisons and its inhabitants put of the Lacedacuionians which was to death by the Athen- helping to build the fort was entreated by the Aeginetans to enter the walls, but refused, thinking that to be shut up inside them would be too dangerous. So they ascended to the high ground, and then, considering the enemy to be more than a match for them, would not come down. Meanwhile the Athenians landed, marched straight upon Thyrea with their whole army, and took it. They burnt and plundered the city, and carried away with them to Athens all the Aeginetans who had not fallen in the battle, and the Lacedaemonian governor of the place, Tantalus the son of Patrocles, who had been wounded and taken prisoner. They also had on board a few of the inhabitants of Cythera, whose removal seemed to be required as a measure of precaution. These the Athenians determined to deposit in some of the islands ; at the same time they allowed the other Cytherians to live in their own countr}', paying a tribute of four talents'*. They resolved to kill all the Aeginetans whom they had taken in satisfaction of their long-standing hatred, and to put Tantalus in chains along with the captives from Sphacteria. 58 During the same summer the people of Camarina and A conference is held ^^^la in Sicily made a truce, in the first at Gela betivecn the instance with one another only. But representatives of the after a while all the other Sicilian states sent envoys to Gela, where they held a conference in the hope of clTecting a reconciliation. " /800.