History of the Peloponnesian War

Immediately after this the following disagreements arose between the Athenians and Peloponnesians, to lead them to war.

While the Corinthians were contriving how to avenge themselves on them, the Athenians, suspecting their hostility, ordered the Potidaeans, who live on the isthmus of Pallene, being colonists of the Corinthians, but their own subjects and tributaries, to throw down the wall towards Pallene, and give hostages; and to dismiss, and not receive in future, the magistrates [*]( The term δημιουργοί, or δαμιουργοί, was a title applied to the chief magistrates of the Peloponnesians, expressive of their doing 'the service of the people.'—Asclepiades, as quoted by the Scholiast, considers the preposition ἐπί superfluous. Göller understands it to express an additional or extra magistrate, sent by the mother country to act as a colleague to the demiurgi appointed by the colonists themselves. —Arnold.) whom the Corinthians used to send every year; being afraid that they might revolt at the instigation of Perdiccas and the Corinthians, and lead the rest of their allies Thrace-ward [*]( A general term appalled to the Greek states which lined the northern, coast of the Aegean from Thessaly to the Hellespont. —Arnold.) to revolt with them.