“…As large military operations had ceased in the south, due to the arrival of the winter season (the main Persian army was wintering under Mardonius in Thessaly), Artabazus decided to take advantage of the lull in the main front, in order to reduce the city of Potidaea into utter slavery. 9 --------2 For some indicative examples, see Macan 1908: 553-558, Munro 1953: 316, Burn 1962: 496-499, Alexander 1963: 31-34, Hignett 1963: 270-271, Hammond 1967a: 245, Balcer 1984: 267, Dandamaev 1989: 214, Lazenby 1993: 206-207, Briant 1996: 547, Green 1996: 217-219 and Vasilev 2015 Herodotus, VIII, 126-129. 4 That being said, an allusion to the revolt is made by Aristotle (Rhetoric, II, 22, 7), who mentions that the Potidaeans had fought, together with the Athenians, with distinction against the "barbarian" (i.e.…”