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11.
‘Our past operations, Athenians,
have been made known to you by many other letters; it is now time for you to become equally familiar with our present
condition, and to take your measures accordingly.
[2]
We had defeated in most of our engagements with them the Syracusans,
against whom we were sent, and we had built the works which we now occupy,
when Gylippus arrived from Lacedaemon with an army obtained from Peloponnese
and from some of the cities in Sicily.
In our first battle with him we were victorious; in the battle on the following day we were overpowered by a multitude of
cavalry and darters, and compelled to retire within our lines.
[3]
We have now, therefore, been forced by the numbers of those opposed to us
to discontinue the work of circumvallation, and to remain inactive; being unable to make use even of all the force we have, since a large
portion of our heavy infantry is absorbed in the defence of our lines.
Meanwhile the enemy have carried a single wall past our lines, thus making
it impossible for us to invest them in future, until this cross wall be
attacked by a strong force and captured.
[4]
So that the besieger in name has become, at least from the land side, the
besieged in reality; as we are prevented by their cavalry from even going for any distance into
the country.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.91
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.24
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.47
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE ARTICLE—ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 4.29
- Plutarch, Nicias, Plut. Nic. 19
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- LSJ, ἀπα^να_λ-ίσκω
- LSJ, ἐν
- LSJ, οἰκοδομ-έω
- LSJ, παρατείχ-ισμα
- LSJ, παροικοδομ-έω
- LSJ, τεῖχος
- LSJ, ὑστεραῖος
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