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

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

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

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

It was followed by a second, which ordered Athens to raise the siege of Potidaea, and to respect the independence of Aegina.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley

Potidaea, though now a tributary of Athens, was originally a colony of the Corinthians, and received from them certain annual magistrates.

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

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 Arthur Hugh Clough

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