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91.
Thus far victory was with the Peloponnesians,
and the Athenian fleet destroyed; the twenty ships in the right wing being meanwhile in chase of the eleven
Athenian vessels that had escaped their sudden movement and reached the more
open water.
These, with the exception of one ship, all out-sailed them and got safe
into Naupactus, and forming close in shore opposite the temple of Apollo,
with their prows facing the enemy, prepared to defend themselves in case the
Peloponnesians should sail in shore against them.
[2]
After a while the Peloponnesians came up, chanting the paean for their
victory as they sailed on; the single Athenian ship remaining being chased by a Leucadian far ahead of
the rest.
[3]
But there happened to be a merchantman lying at anchor in the roadstead,
which the Athenian ship found time to sail round, and struck the Leucadian
in chase amidships and sank her.
[4]
An exploit so sudden and unexpected produced a panic among the
Peloponnesians; and having fallen out of order in the excitement of victory, some of them
dropped their oars and stopped their way in order to let the main body come
up—an unsafe thing to do considering how near they were to the
enemy's prows; while others ran aground in the shallows, in their ignorance of the
localities.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.20
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.21
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
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- LSJ, Ἀπολλ-ώνιος
- LSJ, Ναύπακτος
- LSJ, ἄτακτ-ος
- LSJ, ἀντεξ-όρμησις
- LSJ, ἀσύμ-φορος
- LSJ, βράχεα
- LSJ, ἐφίστημι
- LSJ, φθάνω
- LSJ, φθείρω
- LSJ, ἴσχω
- LSJ, καθίημι
- LSJ, ὀκέλλω
- LSJ, παιων-ίζω
- LSJ, προκατα-φεύγω
- LSJ, τις
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