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37.
With these contrivances to suit their skill
and ability, and now more confident after the previous sea-fight, the
Syracusans attacked by land and sea at once.
[2]
The town force Gylippus led out a little the first and brought them up to
the wall of the Athenians, where it looked towards the city, while the force
from the Olympieum, that is to say, the heavy infantry that were there with
the horse and the light troops of the Syracusans, advanced against the wall
from the opposite side; the ships of the Syracusans and allies sailing out immediately afterwards.
[3]
The Athenians at first fancied that they were to be attacked by land only,
and it was not without alarm that they saw the fleet suddenly approaching as
well; and while some were forming upon the walls and in front of them against the
advancing enemy, and some marching out in haste against the numbers of horse
and darters coming from the Olympieum and from outside, others manned the
ships or rushed down to the beach to oppose the enemy, and when the ships
were manned put out with seventy-five sail against about eighty of the
Syracusans.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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