§12.72.1ἐπʼ ἄρχοντος δʼ Ἀθήνησιν Ἀμεινίου Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν κατέστησαν ὑπάτους Γάιον Παπίριον καὶ Λεύκιον Ἰούνιον.
When Ameinias was archon in Athens, the Romans established Gaius Papirius and Lucius Junius as consuls.
ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων Σκιωναῖοι μὲν καταφρονήσαντες τῶν Ἀθηναίων διὰ τὴν περὶ τὸ Δήλιον ἧτταν, ἀπέστησαν πρὸς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους καὶ τὴν πόλιν παρέδωκαν Βρασίδᾳ τῷ στρατηγοῦντι τῶν ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης Λακεδαιμονίων.
Under these, the Scionaeans, despising the Athenians because of their defeat at Delium, revolted to the Lacedaemonians and delivered their city to Brasidas, who was commanding the Lacedaemonians in the Thracian region.
§12.72.2ἐν δὲ τῇ Λέσβῳ μετὰ τὴν ἅλωσιν τῆς Μυτιλήνης ὑπʼ Ἀθηναίων οἱ πεφευγότες ἐκ τῆς ἁλώσεως πολλοὶ τὸν ἀριθμὸν ὄντες καὶ πάλαι μὲν ἐπεχείρουν κατελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Λέσβον, τότε δὲ συστραφέντες Ἄντανδρον κατέλαβον, κἀκεῖθεν ὁρμώμενοι διεπολέμουν τοῖς κατέχουσι τὴν Μυτιλήνην Ἀθηναίοις.
In Lesbos, after the capture of Mytilene by the Athenians, those who had fled from the capture, being many in number and having long attempted to return to Lesbos, then banded themselves together and seized Antandrus, and starting from there, they continued the war against the Athenians who held Mytilene.
§12.72.3ἐφʼ οἷς παροξυνθεὶς ὁ δῆμος τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐξέπεμψε στρατηγοὺς μετὰ δυνάμεως ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς Ἀριστείδην καὶ Σύμμαχον.
Provoked at these things, the Athenian democracy sent out Aristides and Symmachus as generals with a force against them.
οὗτοι δὲ καταπλεύσαντες εἰς τὴν Λέσβον καὶ προσβολὰς ποιησάμενοι συνεχεῖς εἷλον τὴν Ἄντανδρον, καὶ τῶν φυγάδων τοὺς μὲν ἀπέκτειναν, τοὺς δʼ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἐξέβαλον, αὐτοὶ δὲ φρουρὰν ἀπολιπόντες τὴν φυλάξουσαν τὸ χωρίον ἀπέπλευσαν ἐκ τῆς Λέσβου.
These men, having sailed to Lesbos and made continuous assaults, captured Antandrus; and of the exiles, they put some to death and expelled others from the city, and having left a garrison to guard the place, they sailed away from Lesbos.
§12.72.4μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Λάμαχος ὁ στρατηγὸς ἔχων δέκα τριήρεις ἔπλευσεν εἰς τὸν Πόντον, καὶ καθορμισθεὶς εἰς Ἡράκλειαν περὶ τὸν ποταμὸν τὸν ὀνομαζόμενον Κάλητα πάσας τὰς ναῦς ἀπέβαλε· μεγάλων γὰρ ὄμβρων καταρραγέντων, καὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ βίαιον τὴν καταφορὰν τοῦ ῥεύματος ποιησαμένου, τὰ σκάφη κατά τινας τραχεῖς τόπους προσπεσόντα τῇ γῇ διεφθάρη.
After these things, Lamachus the general sailed with ten triremes into the Pontus, and having anchored at Heracleia near the river called Cales, he lost all his ships; for great rains having broken out, and the river having made the downward rush of its current violent, the vessels dashed against some rugged places on the land and were destroyed.
§12.72.5Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους σπονδὰς ἐνιαυσίους ἐποιήσαντο κατὰ ταύτας τὰς ὁμολογίας, ὥστʼ ἔχειν ἑκατέρους ὧν τότε κύριοι καθειστήκεσαν.
The Athenians made a one-year truce with the Lacedaemonians on these terms, that each side should hold what they were then masters of.
συνιόντες δὲ πολλάκις εἰς λόγους ᾤοντο δεῖν καταλῦσαι τὸν πόλεμον καὶ εἰς τέλος παύσασθαι τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους φιλοτιμίας· Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ ἔσπευδον ἀπολαβεῖν τοὺς ἐν τῇ Σφακτηρίᾳ γενομένους αἰχμαλώτους.
And meeting frequently for conferences, they thought they ought to dissolve the war and put an end once and for all to their rivalry with one another; but the Lacedaemonians were eager to recover the captives taken at Sphacteria.
§12.72.6τῶν δὲ σπονδῶν τὸν εἰρημένον τρόπον συντελεσθεισῶν, περὶ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων αὐτοῖς ὁμολογούμενα πάντα ὑπῆρξε, περὶ δὲ τῆς Σκιώνης ἠμφισβήτουν ἀμφότεροι.
When the truce had been concluded in the manner described, on other matters everything was agreed between them, but concerning Scione both sides disputed.
γενομένης δὲ μεγάλης φιλοτιμίας τὰς σπονδὰς κατελύσαντο, περὶ δὲ τῆς Σκιώνης διεπολέμουν πρὸς ἀλλήλους.
A great rivalry having arisen, they dissolved the truce and renewed the war against each other concerning Scione.
§12.72.7κατὰ δὲ τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον καὶ Μένδη πόλις πρὸς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἀπέστη καὶ τὴν φιλοτιμίαν τὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς Σκιώνης ἰσχυροτέραν ἐποίησε.
At this time, the city of Mende also revolted to the Lacedaemonians and made the rivalry over Scione more intense.
διὸ καὶ Βρασίδας μὲν ἐκ τῆς Μένδης καὶ τῆς Σκιώνης ἀποκομίσας τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκας καὶ τἄλλα τὰ χρησιμώτατα φρουραῖς ἀξιολόγοις ἠσφαλίσατο τὰς πόλεις,
Therefore Brasidas, having conveyed away the children, women, and the most useful of the other property from Mende and Scione, secured the cities with noteworthy garrisons.
§12.72.8Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ παροξυνθέντες ἐπὶ τοῖς γεγονόσιν ἐψηφίσαντο πάντας τοὺς Σκιωναίους, ὅταν ἁλῶσιν, ἡβηδὸν ἀποσφάξαι, καὶ δύναμιν ἐξέπεμψαν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ναυτικὴν τριήρων πεντήκοντα· τούτων δὲ τὴν στρατηγίαν εἶχε Νικίας καὶ Νικόστρατος.
The Athenians, provoked by what had happened, decreed to slaughter all the Scionaeans from youth upward when they should be captured, and sent against them a naval force of fifty triremes; of these Nicias and Nicostratus held the command.
§12.72.9οὗτοι δὲ πλεύσαντες ἐπὶ πρώτην τὴν Μένδην ἐκράτησαν τῆς πόλεως προδόντων τινῶν αὐτήν· τὴν δὲ Σκιώνην περιετείχισαν, καὶ προσκαθήμενοι τῇ πολιορκίᾳ συνεχεῖς προσβολὰς ἐποιοῦντο.
These men, having sailed first against Mende, gained possession of the city because some betrayed it; and they walled in Scione, and sitting down to the siege, they made continuous assaults.
§12.72.10οἱ δʼ ἐν τῇ Σκιώνῃ φρουροί, πολλοὶ μὲν τὸν ἀριθμὸν ὄντες, εὐπορίαν δʼ ἔχοντες βελῶν καὶ σίτου καὶ τῆς ἄλλης παρασκευῆς, ῥᾳδίως ἠμύνοντο τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, καὶ στάσιν ὑπερδέξιον ἔχοντες πολλοὺς κατετίτρωσκον.
The garrison in Scione, being many in number and having an abundance of missiles, food, and other equipment, easily repulsed the Athenians, and having an advantageous position on high ground, they wounded many.
ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἐπράχθη κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν ἐνιαυτόν.
These things, then, were done in the course of this year.