Potidaea
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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 Crawley, Richard
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
Delay not, therefore, to assist Potidaea, a Dorian city besieged by Ionians, which is quite a reversal of the order of things; nor to assert the freedom of the rest.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard
The Corinthians likewise planted a few colonies on this coast, of which Potidaea, on the narrow isthmus of Pallene, most deserves mention.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
Send an army into Attica, and compel the Athenians to withdraw their forces from Potidaea.
From Stories from Thucydides by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
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