THE next summer the truce for a year ended, after
lasting until the Pythian games. During the armistice
the Athenians expelled the Delians from Delos, conclud-
ing that they must have been polluted by some old of-
fence at the time of their consecration, and that this
had been the omission in the previous purification of
the island, which, as I have related, had been thought
to have been duly accomplished by the removal of the
graves of the dead. The Delians had Atramyttium in
Asia given them by Pharnaces, and settled there as they
removed from Delos.

Meanwhile Cleon prevailed on the Athenians to let
him set sail at the expiration of the armistice for the
towns in the direction of Thrace with twelve hundred
heavy infantry and three hundred horse from Athens,
a large force of the allies, and thirty ships. First touch-
ing at the still besieged Scione, and taking some heavy
infantry from the army there, he next sailed into Cophos,
a harbour in the territory of Torone, which is not far
from the town. From thence, having learnt from de-
serters that Brasidas was not in Torone, and that its
garrison was not strong enough to give him battle, he
advanced with his army against the town, sending ten
ships to sail round into the harbour. He first came to
the fortification lately thrown up in front of the town

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