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4.
After speaking to the captains of companies
on the subject, and failing to persuade either the generals or the soldiers,
he remained inactive with the rest from stress of weather; until the soldiers themselves wanting occupation were seized with a sudden
impulse to go round and fortify the place.
[2]
Accordingly they set to work in earnest, and having no iron tools, picked
up stones, and put them together as they happened to fit, and where mortar
was needed, carried it on their backs for want of hods, stooping down to
make it stay on, and clasping their hands together behind to prevent it
falling off;
[3]
sparing no effort to be able to complete the most vulnerable points before
the arrival of the Lacedaemonians, most of the place being sufficiently
strong by nature without further fortification.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ἀποπίπτω
- LSJ, δεῖ
- LSJ, ἐξεργ-άζομαι
- LSJ, ἐγκύπτω
- LSJ, ἐγχειρ-έω
- LSJ, ἐπίλεκτ-ος
- LSJ, ἐπιμένω
- LSJ, εἰσπίπτω
- LSJ, φθάνω
- LSJ, κοιν-όω
- LSJ, λι^θουργ-ός
- LSJ, λογ-άδην
- LSJ, μέχρι^
- LSJ, ὁρμ-ή
- LSJ, ὀπίσω
- LSJ, οὔτε
- LSJ, σι^δήρ-ιον
- LSJ, συμπλέκ-ω
- LSJ, συντίθημι
- LSJ, σχολ-άζω
- LSJ, ταξι?́αρχ-ος
- LSJ, ὑπάρχω
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