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78.
Failing in this last attempt the
Peloponnesians left a portion of their forces on the spot, dismissing the
rest, and built a wall of circumvallation round the town, dividing the
ground among the various cities present; a ditch being made within and without the lines, from which they got their
bricks.
[2]
All being finished by about the rising of Arcturus, they left men enough to
man half the wall, the rest being manned by the Boeotians, and drawing off
their army dispersed to their several cities.
[3]
The Plataeans had before sent off their wives and children and oldest men
and the mass of the noncombatants to Athens; so that the number of the besieged left in the place comprised four hundred
of their own citizens, eighty Athenians, and a hundred and ten women to bake
their bread.
[4]
This was the sum total at the commencement of the siege, and there was no
one else within the walls, bond or free.
Such were the arrangements made for the blockade of Plataea.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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