History of the Peloponnesian War

on behalf of the Athenians, the generals Nicostratus son of Dieitrephes, Nicias son of Niceratus, Autocles son of Tolmaeus. Such, then, were the terms on which the armistice was concluded, and during its continuance they were constantly conferring about a truce of longer duration.

About the very time when they were performing the rites of confirmation,[*](These consisted of formal libations.) Scione, a city in Pallene, revolted from the Athenians and went over to Brasidas. The Scionaeans assert that they came originally from Pellene[*](Pellene was in Achaea, near Sicyon; the people are mentioned as allies of Sparta in 2.9.2..) in the Peloponnesus, and that the first settlers in Scione were driven to this place on their way back from Troy by the storm[*](Referred to again in 6.2.3.) which the Achaeans encountered, and settled here.