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 69 7'] SURRENDER OF POTIDAEA I53 of Athenians taken from the crews and of allied troops, was defeated, and himself and a part of his forces slain. In the same winter the Potidaeans, who were still 70 blockaded, found themselves unable to 77,^ Potidaeans are hold out ; for the Peloponnesian in- compdhd by imnger to vasions of Attica did not make the "',>'"f'- T^^, ^*>"-, • 1 1 ntans blaine ihcir gnie- Athenians withdraw ; and they had no rah for ghnug easy more food. When they had been re- terms. duced to such straits as actually in some cases to feed on human flesh, they entered into communications with the Athenian generals, Xenophon the son of Euripides, Hcstio- dorus the son of Aristocleides, and Phanomachus the son of Callimachus, to whom the siege had been entrusted. They, seeing that the army was suffering from the exposed situation, and considering that the city had already spent two thousand talents "^ on the siege, accepted the terms proposed. The Potidaeans, with their wives and their children, and likewise the foreign troops'', were to come out of the city, the men with one garment, the women with two, and they were allowed a certain fixed sum of money for their journey. So they came out under a safe-conduct, and went into Chalcidice, or wherever they could find a home. But the Athenians blamed the generals for coming to terms without their authority, thinking that they could have made the city surrender at discretion. Soon afterwards they sent thither colonists of their own. Such were the events of the winter. And so ended the second year in the Peloponnesian War of which Thucydides wrote the history. In the following summer the Peloponnesians and their 71 allies under the command of Archida- E^.■ped,tioH of the ^^^^X mus the son of ZeUxidamUS, the Lace- Peloponnesians under daemonian king, instead of invading Arehidanms agamst . ., ... . . Plataea. Attica, made an expedition against Plataea. There he encamped and was about to ravage the " ;^40o,ooo. ^ Cp. i. 60.