History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides, Vol. 1-4. Smith, Charles Foster, translator. London and Cambridge, MA: Heinemann and Harvard University Press, 1919-1923.

The Lacedaemonians, however, did not comply with his request, partly on account of the jealousy of the foremost men, partly also because they wished rather to recover the men taken on the island and to bring the war to an end.

The same winter the Megarians took and razed to the ground their long walls[*](cf. 4.69.4.) which the Athenians had held; and Brasidas, after the capture of Amphipolis, made an expedition with his allies against the district called Acte.

It is a promontory projecting from the King's canal[*](Xerxes' canal; cf. Hdt. vii. 22 ff.) on the inner side of the isthmus, and its terminus at the Aegean Sea is the lofty Mt.