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65.
The generals of the Syracusans, who did not
want confidence, and who had intended even without this to march on Catana,
believed the man without any sufficient inquiry, fixed at once a day upon
which they would be there, and dismissed him, and the Selinuntines and
others of their allies having now arrived, gave orders for all the
Syracusans to march out in mass.
Their preparations completed, and the time fixed for their arrival being at
hand, they set out for Catana, and passed the night upon the river
Symaethus, in the Leontine territory.
[2]
Meanwhile the Athenians no sooner knew of their approach than they took all
their forces and such of the Sicels or others as had joined them, put them
on board their ships and boats, and sailed by night to Syracuse.
[3]
Thus, when morning broke the Athenians were landing opposite the Olympieum
ready to seize their camping ground, and the Syracusan horse having ridden
up first to Catana and found that all the armament had put to sea, turned
back and told the infantry, and then all turned back together, and went to
the relief of the city.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.183
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.43
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- LSJ, ἀπερί-σκεπτος
- LSJ, ἀπο-στρέφω
- LSJ, συντίθημι
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