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76 EXPEDITION AGAINST AMPHIPOLIS [iV pedition against the Triballi, by whom he was defeated in Death of SUalces, t)attle. Seuthes the son of Spara- tvho is succeeded by his docus ■', his nephcw, Succeeded him nephew Seuthes. {„ jj^g kingdom of the Odrysians and the rest of his Thracian dominions. I02 During the same winter, Brasidas and his Chalcidian The first, second, mid ^^^'es made an expedition against third foundation of Aniphipolis upon the river Strymon, Amphipolis. ji^g Athenian colony. The place where the city now stands is the same which Aristagoras of B.C. 497. Miletus in days of old, when he was fleeing from King Uarius, attempted to colonise ; he was driven out by R C. 465. the Edonians ^'. Two and thirty years afterwards the ■*■ Athenians made another attempt ; they sent a colony of ten thousand, made up partly of their own citizens, partly of any others who liked to join ; but these also were attacked by the Thracians at Drabescus, and perished^. Twent3'-nine years later the Athenians came again, under the leadership of Hagnon the son of Nicias, B.C. 437. drove out the Edonians, and built a town on the same 01. 85, 4. spot, which was formerly called 'The Nine Ways.' Their base of operations was Eion, a market and seaport which they already possessed, at the mouth of the river, about three miles from the site of the present town. Wanting to enclose the newly-founded city, which on two sides is surrounded by the river Strymon, Hagnon cut it off b}' a long wall reaching from the upper part of the river to the lower, and called the place Amphipolis, because it strikes the eye both by sea and land. ^°3 Against Amphipolis Brasidas now led his army. Starting from Arnae in Chalcidice, towards Brasidas ts received . , 1 1 a 1 1 -n hy the inhabitants of evening he reached Aulon and Bro- Argilus, who conduct Hiiscus at the poiut whcrc the lake his army to the bridge Bolbe flows into the sca ; having there near Amphipolis. , , , , , . ^, supped, he marched on during the Cp. ii. loi fill. Cp. Herod, v. 124. "^ Cp. i. 100 fin.