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Off Laconia they heard that the Peloponnesian
ships were already at Corcyra, upon which Eurymedon and Sophocles wished to
hasten to the island, but Demosthenes required them first to touch at Pylos
and do what was wanted there, before continuing their voyage.
While they were making objections, a squall chanced to come on and carried
the fleet into Pylos.
[2]
Demosthenes at once urged them to fortify the place, it being for this that
he had come on the voyage, and made them observe there was plenty of stone
and timber on the spot, and that the place was strong by nature, and
together with much of the country round unoccupied; Pylos, or Coryphasium, as the Lacedaemonians call it, being about
forty-five miles distant from Sparta, and situated in the old country of the
Messenians.
[3]
The commanders told him that there was no lack of desert headlands in
Peloponnese if he wished to put the city to expense by occupying them.
He, however, thought that this place was distinguished from others of the
kind by having a harbour close by; while the Messenians, the old natives of the country, speaking the same
dialect as the Lacedaemonians, could do them the greatest mischief by their
incursions from it, and would at the same time be a trusty garrison.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, καρτερός
- LSJ, καταφέρω
- LSJ, ὁμόφων-ος
- LSJ, πολύς
- LSJ, συνεκ-πλέω
- LSJ, τειχ-ίζω
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