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Excerpt from Thucydides, Vol. 2: Translated Into English, to Which Is Prefixed an Essay on Inscriptions and a Note on the Geography of Thucydides; Books IV-VIII and Historical Index About the same time Simonides, an Athenian general, 7 collecting a few troops from the Athen Temporary aft/wm ian garrisons, and a larger force from and subsequent loss Of their, allies in that neighbourhood, took PM died Em Eion in Chalcidice, a colony of Mende, which had been hostile to Athens; the place was betrayed to him. But the Chalcidians and Bottiaeans quickly came to the rescue and he was driven out with considerable loss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.