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 4© REVOLT OF POTIDAEA [l also sent against Potidaea, But at Lacedaemon they were They receive promtses promised by the magistrates that if of assistance front the Athenians attacked Potidaea they Spaiia, and revolt. vvould invade Attica. So they seized B.C. 432. the opportunity and revolted : the Chalcidians and Bot- ^' ^' tiaeans swore alliance with them and joined in the revolt. Perdiccas persuaded the Chalcidians to abandon and pull down their towns on the sea-coast, and settling at Olynthus inland, there to form one strong city. On their removal he gave them part of his own territory of Mygdonia about the lake Bolbe to cultivate while the contest lasted. So, dismantling their cities, they settled up the country and made preparation for war. 59 The Athenians, when the thirty ships arrived in Chal- „ .,,, cidice, found that Potidaea and the Ihe Atbemans under ' Archestratus arrive in Other cities had already revolted. Chakidice. They first Whereupon the generals, thinking that attack Macedonia. ^j^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^l^j^ ^^jthout a Stronger force to act against all the rebels as well as against Per- diccas, directed their attention to Macedonia, which was their original destination, and there carried on a regular campaign in concert with Philip and the brothers of Derdas, who had invaded the country from the interior. 60 Now that Potidaea had revolted and the Athenian ships „,_.,,., were on the coast of Macedonia, the 1 he Lonnthians send troops to the aid of Corinthians grew anxious about the Potidaea wider ihe town ; they felt that the danger came command of Aristens. ^^^^^^ ^^ ^j^^^^^^ ^^^ despatched thither volunteers of their own and other troops whom they attracted by pay from various parts of the Peloponnese, numbering in all sixteen hundred hoplites and four hundred light-armed. Their commander was Aristeus the son of Adeimantus, who had always been a great friend of the Potidaeans ; it was mainly out of regard for him that most of the Corinthian soldiers volunteered on the expedition. They arrived in Chalcidice forty days after the revolt of Potidaea.