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70.
The armies now came to close quarters, and
for a long while fought without either giving ground.
Meanwhile there occurred some claps of thunder with lightning and heavy
rain, which did not fail to add to the fears of the party fighting for the
first time, and very little acquainted with war; while to their more experienced adversaries these phenomena appeared to be
produced by the time of year, and much more alarm was felt at the continued
resistance of the enemy.
[2]
At last the Argives drove in the Syracusan left, and after them the
Athenians routed the troops opposed to them, and the Syracusan army was thus
cut in two and betook itself to flight.
[3]
The Athenians did not pursue far, being held in check by the numerous and
undefeated Syracusan horse, who attacked and drove back any of their heavy
infantry whom they saw pursuing in advance of the rest; in spite of which the victors followed so far as was safe in a body, and
then went back and set up a trophy.
[4]
Meanwhile the Syracusans rallied at the Helorine road, where they reformed
as well as they could under the circumstances, and even sent a garrison of
their own citizens to the Olympieum, fearing that the Athenians might lay
hands on some of the treasures there.
The rest returned to the town.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae, 588
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.154
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XI
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 7.79
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- LSJ, ἀνθ-ίστημι
- LSJ, εἰσβάλλω
- LSJ, κι_νέω
- LSJ, παρα-ρρήγνυ_μι
- LSJ, προδι^-ώκω
- LSJ, συνεπι-λαμβάνω
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- LSJ, ὠθ-έω
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