Amphipolitans
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the Amphipolitans
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Inhabitants of Amphipolis, divided between pro-Spartan partisans and Athenian loyalists, who ultimately surrender to Brasidas.
especially as only a small number of Athenians were citizens of the place, the majority being a mixed multitude.
wishing, if possible, to reach Amphipolis in time, before any surrender was made, or, at any rate, to reach Eion.
Indeed it is said, that if Brasidas would not have set his troops to plunder, but marched straightway to the town, he would probably have taken it.
First Olynthiac
People of Amphipolis, including those said to have betrayed their city to Philip.
They know how he treated those Amphipolitans who betrayed their city and those Pydnaeans who opened their gates to him.
The Rights of War and Peace
Inhabitants of Amphipolis, named as Philip's wartime enemy.
It is observed in one of the speeches of Aeschines, that Philip, though at war with the Amphipolitans, could not lawfully take possession of Amphipolis, as a conquest, it being a city, which belonged to the Athenians.