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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Example Sentences

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 Kennedy, Charles Rann

The armament was brought back in this distressed condition to Athens, while the reduction of Potidaea was left as before, to the slow course of blockade.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Subsequently they came to terms and concluded a forced alliance with Perdiccas, hastened by the calls of Potidaea and by the arrival of Aristeus at that place.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard

Potidaea fell in 356 and Methone, the last Athenian stronghold, in 353.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.

While yet a lad he served in the campaign of Potidaea, where he shared the tent of Sokrates, and took his place next him in the ranks.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey