History of the Peloponnesian War

After this occurred at the river Eurymedon in Pamphylia the land-battle and sea-fight of the Athenians[*](For this glorious victory of Cimon's, whose date (466 B.C.?) is not certain, cf. Diod. 11. 60; Plut. Cim. 12) and their allies against the Persians; and the Athenians were victorious in both on the same day under the command of Cimon son of Miltiades, and they took and destroyed triremes of the Phoenicians to the number of two hundred all told.

And some time afterwards it came to pass that the Thasians revolted from them,[*](465 B.C.) a quarrel having arisen about the trading posts and the mine[*](The Thasians had a gold mine at Skapte Hyle on the Thracian coast, from which they drew rich revenues; cf. Hdt. 6.46 f.) on the opposite coast of Thrace, of which the Thasians enjoyed the profits. Thereupon the Athenians sailed with their fleet against Thasos, and, after winning a battle at sea, disembarked on the island.

About the same time they sent to the river Strymon ten thousand colonists, consisting of Athenians and their allies, with a view to colonising the place, then called Nine Ways, but now Amphipolis; and though these colonists gained possession of Nine Ways, which was inhabited by Edoni, yet when they advanced into the interior of Thrace they were destroyed at Drabescus in Edonia by the united forces of the Thracians, to whom the settlement of the place was a menace.