Definitions for Potidaea

Potidaea Pot·i·dae·a

Spelling: [pot-i-dee-uh]
IPA: /ˌpɒt ɪˈdi ə/

Potidaea is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in Potidaea (aadeiopt).

Definitions for Potidaea

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  1. a city on the Chalcidice Peninsula, whose revolt against Athens in 432 b.c. was one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War.

Examples for Potidaea

But the siege of Potidaea put an end to her inaction; she had men inside it: besides, she feared for the place.

The thirty ships of the Athenians, arriving before the Thracian places, found Potidaea and the rest in revolt.

Full ten thousand heavy infantry were in the field, all Athenian citizens, besides the three thousand before Potidaea.

So at length Potidaea was strongly invested on either side, and from the sea by the ships co-operating in the blockade.

Potidaea fell in 356 and Methone, the last Athenian stronghold, in 353.

They arrived in Thrace forty days after the revolt of Potidaea.

They afterwards sent settlers of their own to Potidaea, and colonized it.

At the close of the same winter, in fact almost in spring, Brasidas made an attempt upon Potidaea.

Send an army into Attica, and compel the Athenians to withdraw their forces from Potidaea.

It was followed by a second, which ordered Athens to raise the siege of Potidaea, and to respect the independence of Aegina.

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