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 119, 1 2o] SCIONE RECEIVES BRASIDAS 89 ratified the truce were, on behalf of Lacedaemon, Taurus the son of Echetiniidas, Athenaeus the son of Periclidas, Philocharidas the son of Eryxidaidas ; of Corinth, Aeneas the son of Ocytus, Euphamidas the son of Aristonymus ; of Sicyon, Daniotimus the son of Naucrates, Onasimus the son of Megacles; of Megara, Nicasus the son of Cecalus, Menecrates the son of Aniphidorus ; of Epidaurus, Amphias the son of Eupaidas ; and on behalf of Athens, Nicostratus the son of Diitrephes, Niciasthe son of Niceratus, Autocles the son of Tohnaeus. Such were the terms of the armi- stice ; during its continuance fresh negotiations for a final peace were constantly carried on. About the time when the envoys engaged in the negotia- 120 tions were passing to and fro, Scione, Meamvhile Sdo.,e a town of Pallene, revolted from the rcvo//s. Bmsidas satis Athenians and joined Brasidas. The ""^^"' *->' "'S^* '" « Scionaeans, according to their own "" V,' '"^'"^ account, sprang originally from Pellene warmly praises their in Peloponnesus, but their ancestors '""""f'- returning from Troy were carried by the storm which the Achaean fleet encountered to Scione, where they took up their abode. Brasidas, when he heard of the revolt, sailed thither by night, sending before him a friendly trireme, while he himself followed at some dis- tance in a small boat, thinking that if he met any vessel, not a trireme, larger than the boat, the trireme would pro- tect him % while if another trireme of equal strength came up, it would fall, not upon the boat, but upon the larger vessel, and in the meantime he would be able to save him- self. He succeeded in crossing, and having summoned a meeting of the Scionaeans, he repeated what he had said at Acanthus and Torone, adding that their conduct was deserving of the highest praise ; for at a time when the Athenians were holding Potidaea and the isthmus of Pallene, and they, being cut off from the mainland, were would protect him.' H 2
 * Reading awro) ; or, reading avTrj, ' the mere presence of the trireme