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34.
After this skirmishing had lasted some little
while, the Lacedaemonians became unable to dash out with the same rapidity
as before upon the points attacked, and the light troops, finding that they
now fought with less vigor, became more confident.
They could see with their own eyes that they were many times more numerous
than the enemy; they were now more familiar with his aspect and found him less terrible,
the result not having justified the apprehensions which they had suffered,
when they first landed in slavish dismay at the idea of attacking
Lacedaemonians; and accordingly their fear changing to disdain, they now rushed all
together with loud shouts upon them, and pelted them with stones, darts, and
arrows, whichever came first to hand.
[2]
The shouting accompanying their onset confounded the Lacedaemonians,
unaccustomed to this mode of fighting; dust rose from the newly-burnt wood, and it was impossible to see in front
of one with the arrows and stones flying through clouds of dust from the
hands of numerous assailants.
[3]
The Lacedaemonians had now to sustain a rude conflict; their caps would not keep out the arrows, darts had broken off in the
armour of the wounded, while they themselves were helpless for offence,
being prevented from using their eyes to see what was before them, and
unable to hear the words of command for the hubbub raised by the enemy; danger encompassed them on every side, and there was no hope of any means
of defence or safety.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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- LSJ, ἄνω
- LSJ, ἀήθ-ης
- LSJ, ἀκρο-βολίζομαι:
- LSJ, δορα?́τ-ιον
- LSJ, δουλ-όω
- LSJ, ἔκπληξ-ις
- LSJ, ἐμβο-άω
- LSJ, ἐναπο-κλάω
- LSJ, ἐπεκ-θέω
- LSJ, ἐπιδρομ-ή
- LSJ, καίω
- LSJ, πῖλος
- LSJ, πλεῖστος
- LSJ, πρόχειρ-ος
- LSJ, στέγω
- LSJ, συνεθ-ίζω
- LSJ, ὥσπερ
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