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

Having first taken Amphipolis, then Pydna, Potidaea next, Methone afterward, he invaded Thessaly.

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

Whilst 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 him in battle.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

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 Smith, William, Sir

He was twenty when he conversed with Parmenides and Zeno; he was twenty-eight when Phidias adorned the Parthenon; he was forty when he fought at Potidaea and rescued Alcibiades.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by Lord, John

Socrates and Alcibiades were fellow- soldiers at Potidaea and shared the same tent.

From The Greek View of Life by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)