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

The Athenians took refuge in Potidaea, and afterwards recovered their dead under truce, and returned to Athens with the remnant of their army; four hundred and thirty men and all the generals having fallen.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley

It was not safe at Olynthus to advocate Philip's cause, without the Olynthian people sharing the benefit by possession of Potidaea.

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

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

He incited her tributaries upon the coast of Macedonia to revolt, including Potidaea, a town seated on the isthmus of Pallene.

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

When he was very young, he was a soldier in the expedition against Potidaea, where Socrates lodged in the same tent with him, and stood next to him in battle.

From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by John S. (John Stuart) White

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