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 4-6] CLEON SAILS AGAINST AMrHlPOLIS 105 On his voyage, both to and from Sicily, he made pro- 5 posals of friendship to several of the The Italian Locriaus Italian cities. He also fell in with make a treaty nith some Locrian settlers who had been ^''"'"^• driven out of Messene. After the agreement between the Sicilian towns, a feud had broken out at Messene, and one of the two parties called in the Locrians, who sent some of their citizens to settle there ; thus Messene was held for a time by the Locrians. They were returning home after their expulsion when Phaeax fell in with them, but he did them no harm ; for the Locrians had already agreed with him to enter into a treaty with the Athenians. At the general reconciliation of the Sicilians, they alone of the allies had not made peace with Athens. And they would have continued to hold out had they not been constrained by a war with the Itoneans and Melaeans, who were their neighbours and colonists from their city. Phaeax then returned to Athens. Cleon had now sailed round from Torone against Am- 6 phipolis, and making Eion his head- L .... ji c^ • <, 1 Clcoit retiiains at quarters, attacked Staglrus^ a colony ^.^„ ^„i„„g f^, ,.,-„. of the Andrians, which he failed to foicemcnts ; Brasidas take. He succeeded, however, in (^^^^ds the hill of Cer- . • /— 1 i> 'T-i • 1 dvlium to reconnoitre. stormmg Galepsus '', a Fhasian colony. - He sent an embassy to Perdiccas, desiring him to come with an army, according to the terms of the alliance <", and another to Polles, the king of the Odomantian Thracians, who was to bring as many Thracian mercenaries as he could ; he then remained quietly at Eion waiting for these reinforcements. Brasidas, hearing of his movements, took up a counter-position on Cerdylium. This is a high ground on the right bank of the river, not far from Amphipolis, belonging to the Argilians. From this spot he commanded a view of the country round, so that Cleon was sure to be seen by him if, — as Brasidas fully expected,— despising the » Cp. iv. 88 fin. ^ Cp. iv. 107 fin. <= Cp. iv. 132 init. I 2