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

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

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

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

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 Aubrey Stewart

The thirty ships of the Athenians, arriving before the Thracian places, found Potidaea and the rest in revolt.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley