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38.
The Lacedaemonians hearing this offer, most
of them lowered their shields and waved their hands to show that they
accepted it.
Hostilities now ceased, and a parley was held between Cleon and Demosthenes
and Styphon, son of Pharax, the other side; since Epitadas, the first of the previous commanders, had been killed, and
Hippagretas, the next in command, left for dead among the slain, though
still alive, and thus the command had devolved upon Styphon according to the
law, in case of anything happening to his superiors.
[2]
Styphon and his companions said they wished to send a herald to the
Lacedaemonians on the mainland, to know what they were to do.
[3]
The Athenians would not let any of them go, but themselves called for
heralds from the mainland, and after questions had been carried backwards
and forwards two or three times, the last man that passed over from the
Lacedaemonians on the continent brought this message: ‘The
Lacedaemonians bid you to decide for yourselves so long as you do nothing
dishonourable;’ upon which after consulting together they surrendered themselves and their
arms.
[4]
The Athenians, after guarding them that day and night, the next morning set
up a trophy in the island, and got ready to sail, giving their prisoners in
batches to be guarded by the captains of the galleys; and the Lacedaemonians sent a herald and took up their dead.
[5]
The number of the killed and prisoners taken in the island was as follows:
four hundred and twenty heavy infantry had passed over; three hundred all but eight were taken alive to Athens; the rest were killed.
About a hundred and twenty of the prisoners were Spartans.
The Athenian loss was small, the battle not having been fought at close
quarters.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PRONOUNS
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.1
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- LSJ, ἀνα-σείω
- LSJ, ἀποδέω
- LSJ, διαδίδωμι
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- LSJ, διασκευ-άζω
- LSJ, ἐφαιρέω
- LSJ, ἐπερώτ-ησις
- LSJ, ἱππ-αγρέται
- LSJ, κηρύσσω
- LSJ, προσίημι
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