Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Potidæa.

This city was besieged by a force of about 3,000 Athenians, B.C. 432, and was defended by a small garrison of Corinthians, under Aristæus. The town held out until the winter of 429, when the garrison surrendered, and were permitted to go free.