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36.
The struggle began to seem endless, when the
commander of the Messenians came to Cleon and Demosthenes, and told them
that they were losing their labour: but that if they would give him some
archers and light troops to go round on the enemy's rear by a way he would
undertake to find, he thought he could force the approach.
[2]
Upon receiving what he asked for, he started from a point out of sight in
order not to be seen by the enemy, and creeping on wherever the precipices
of the island permitted, and where the Lacedaemonians, trusting to the
strength of the ground, kept no guard, succeeded after the greatest
difficulty in getting round without their seeing him, and suddenly appeared
on the high grounding their rear, to the dismay of the surprised enemy and
the still greater joy of his expectant friends.
[3]
The Lacedaemonians thus placed between two fires, and in the same dilemma,
to compare small things with great, as at Thermopylae, where the defenders
were cut off through the Persians getting round by the path, being now
attacked in front and behind, began to give way, and overcome by the odds
against them and exhausted from want of food, retreated.The Athenians were already masters of the approaches
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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