and we can't even be sure which of them came first.

甚至不能确定它们的先后顺序
I'm turning first to Potidaea.

我认为波提狄亚战役在先
I'm doing what most scholars do,

大多数学者也这样认为
but none of us have any reason to believe it

可我们都没有任何令人信服的理由
happened before the next thing I'll tell you about.

证明它发生在我将要讲的下件事之前
City of Potidaea up in the Chalcidic Peninsula,

波提狄亚城位于卡尔西狄克半岛南端
those three fingers sticking out into the Aegean from Thrace,

这三个半岛像三根手指从色雷斯插入爱琴海
was, you will perhaps recall,

大家可能还记得
a Corinthian colony

它是科林斯的一个殖民地
and it was extraordinarily lose to Corinth.

而且完全服从科林斯的摆布
Remember when I was talking about colonies and the

还记得我讲过殖民地
varieties of relations with the mother city that they had,

及其与母邦的多种关系吧