ison was not
strong enough to give him battle, he advanced with his army against the
town, sending ten ships to sail round into the harbour. He first came to
the fortification lately thrown up in front of the town by Brasidas in
order to take in the suburb, to do which he had pulled down part of the
original wall and made it all one city. To this point Pasitelidas, the
Lacedaemonian commander, with such garrison as there was in the place,
hurried to repel the Athenian assault; but finding himself hard pressed,
and seeing the ships that had been sent round sailing into the harbour,
Pasitelidas began to be afraid that they might get up to the city before
its defenders were there and, the fortification being also carried, he
might be taken prisoner, and so abandoned the outwork and ran into the
town. But the Athenians from the ships had already taken Torone, and
their land forces following at his heels burst in with him with a rush
over the part of the old wall that had been pulled down, killing some of
the Peloponnesians and Toronaeans in the melee, and making prisoners
of the rest, and Pasitelidas their commander amongst them. Brasidas
meanwhile had advanced to relieve Torone, and had only about four miles
more to go when he heard of its fall on the road, and turned back again.
Cleon and the Athenians set up two trophies, one by the harbour, the
other by the fortification and, making slaves of the wives and children
of the Toronaeans, sent the men with the Peloponnesians and any
Chalcidians that were there, to the number of seven hundred, to Athens;
whence, however, they all came home afterwards, the Peloponnesians on
the conclusion of peace, and the rest by being exchanged against other
prisoners with the Olynthians. About the same time Panactum, a fortress
on the Athenian border, was taken by treachery by the Boeotians.
Meanwhile Cleon, after placing a garrison in Torone, weighed anchor and
sailed around Athos on his way to Amphipolis.

About the same time Phaeax, son of Erasistratus, set sail with two
colleagues as ambassador from Athens to Italy and Sicily. The Leontines,
upon the departure of the Athenians from Sicily after the pacification,
had placed a number of new citizens upon the roll, and the commons had
a design for redividing the land; but the upper classes, aware of their
intention, called in the Syracusans and expelled the commons. These last
were scattered in various directions; but the upper classes came