Potidaea

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[pot-i-dee-uh] / ˌpɒt ɪˈdi ə /

noun

1. a city on the Chalcidice Peninsula, whose revolt against Athens in 432 b.c. was one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War.

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Potidaea

They then joined him in a war against Athens, and he gave up to them Potidaea, which had yielded to their united arms.

From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy

But the siege of Potidaea put an end to her inaction; she had men inside it: besides, she feared for the place.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley

Full ten thousand heavy infantry were in the field, all Athenian citizens, besides the three thousand before Potidaea.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley

The Corinthians likewise planted a few colonies on this coast, of which Potidaea, on the narrow isthmus of Pallene, most deserves mention.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith

Among his epigrams are epitaphs on Alexander and on Philip; his date is further fixed by the mention of Potidaea in another epigram, as Cassander, who died B.C.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. (John William) Mackail

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