Histories

The generals read the letter and perceived who was the traitor, but they resolved for +Scione [23.55,39.95] (Perseus) Scione's sake that they would not condemn Timoxenus with a charge of treason, for fear that the people of +Scione [23.55,39.95] (Perseus) Scione should hereafter be called traitors.

This is how Timoxenus' treachery was brought to light. But when Artabazus had besieged +Potidaea (deserted settlement), Chalcidice, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Potidaea for three months, there was a great ebb-tide in the sea which lasted for a long while, and when the foreigners saw that the sea was turned to a marsh, they prepared to pass over it into +Pallene [23.8833,38.05] (Perseus) Pallene.

When they had made their way over two-fifths of it, however, and three yet remained to cross before they could be in +Pallene [23.8833,38.05] (Perseus) Pallene, there came a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before. Some of them who did not know how to swim were drowned, and those who knew were slain by the Potidaeans, who came among them in boats.