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68.
After this, each of the Athenians as fast as
they entered went against the wall.
[2]
A few of the Peloponnesian garrison stood their ground at first, and tried
to repel the assault, and some of them were killed but the main body took
fright and fled; the night attack and the sight of the Megarian traitors in arms against
them making them think that all Megara had gone over to the enemy.
[3]
It so happened also that the Athenian herald of his own idea called out and
invited any of the Megarians that wished, to join the Athenian ranks; and this was no sooner heard by the garrison than they gave way, and,
convinced that they were the victims of a concerted attack, took refuge in
Nisaea.
[4]
By daybreak, the walls being now taken and the Megarians in the city in
great agitation, the persons who had negotiated with the Athenians,
supported by the rest of the popular party which was privy to the plot, said
that they ought to open the gates and march out to battle.
[5]
It had been concerted between them that the Athenians should rush in, the
moment that the gates were opened, while the conspirators were to be
distinguished from the rest by being anointed with oil, and so to avoid
being hurt.
They could open the gates with more security, as four thousand Athenian
heavy infantry from Eleusis, and six hundred horse, had marched all night,
according to agreement, and were now close at hand.
[6]
The conspirators were all ready anointed and at their posts by the gates
when one of their accomplices denounced the plot to the opposite party, who
gathered together and came in a body, and roundly said that they must not
march out—a thing they had never yet ventured on even when in
greater force than at present—or wantonly compromise the safety of
the town, and that if what they said was not attended to, the battle would
have to be fought in Megara.
For the rest, they gave no signs of their knowledge of the intrigue, but
stoutly maintained that their advice was the best, and meanwhile kept close
by and watched the gates, making it impossible for the conspirators to
effect their purpose.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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