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The Syracusans now raised a trophy of their naval victory, and another marking their1 interception of the hoplites on the higher ground close to the wall at the place where they took the horses.
The Athenians raised a trophy of the victory over the land-forces whom the Tyrrhenians drove into the marsh, and another of that which they had themselves gained with the rest of the army.
1 The Syracusans raise two trophies; the Athenians also raise a trophy.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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