Torone
place · 3 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Torône
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Chalcidic city held by Athens, captured by Brasidas through internal betrayal and a night assault.
While the capture of Torone was being effected, the mass of the people, knowing nothing of the matter, was confounded;
but his partisans, knowing that he would come, and some few of them having privately visited him, were watching for his arrival.
Brasidas, therefore, and the greatest part of the troops turned immediately up to the highest parts of the town, wishing to take it from top to bottom, and securely;
Antidosis
Settlement in Thrace named among the cities associated with Timotheus' successes.
and Potidaea and Torône among the settlements in Thrace?
Hellenica
City captured by Agesipolis during operations around Olynthus.
but Torone he attacked and captured by storm.