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43.
Next Demosthenes resolved to attempt the counter wall first by means of
engines.
As however the engines that he brought up were burnt by the enemy fighting
from the wall, and the rest of the forces repulsed after attacking at many
different points, he determined to delay no longer, and having obtained the
consent of Nicias and his fellow-commanders, proceeded to put in execution
his plan of attacking Epipolae.
[2]
As by day it seemed impossible to approach and get up without being
observed, he ordered provisions for five days, took all the masons and
carpenters, and other things, such as arrows, and everything else that they
could want for the work of fortification if successful; and after the first watch set out with Eurymedon and Menander and the whole
army for Epipolae, Nicias being left behind in the lines.
[3]
Having come up by the hill of Euryelus (where the former army had
ascended at first), unobserved by the enemy's guards, they went up
to the fort which the Syracusans had there, and took it, and put to the
sword part of the garrison.
[4]
The greater number, however, escaped at once and gave the alarm to the
camps, of which there were three upon Epipolae, defended by outworks, one of
the Syracusans, one of the other Siceliots, and one of the allies; and also to the six hundred Syracusans forming the original garrison for
this part of Epipolae.
[5]
These at once advanced against the assailants, and falling in with
Demosthenes and the Athenians, were routed by them after a sharp resistance,
the victors immediately pushing on, eager to achieve the objects of the
attack without giving time for their ardor to cool; meanwhile others from the very beginning were taking the counter wall of
the Syracusans, which was abandoned by its garrison, and pulling down the
battlements.
[6]
The Syracusans and the allies, and Gylippus with the troops under his
command, advanced to the rescue from the outworks, but engaged in some
consternation (a night attack being a piece of audacity which they
had never expected), and were at first compelled to retreat.
[7]
But while the Athenians, flushed with their victory, now advanced with less
order, wishing to make their way as quickly as possible through the whole
force of the enemy not yet engaged, without relaxing their attack or giving
them time to rally, the Boeotians made the first stand against them,
attacked them, routed them, and put them to flight.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 759
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.2
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.11
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVES
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVE CLAUSES (RELATIVE CLAUSES: 2488-2573)
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SYRACU´SAE
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- LSJ, μάχομαι
- LSJ, ὁρμ-ή
- LSJ, παραγγ-έλλω
- LSJ, περαίνω
- LSJ, τόλμ-ημα
- LSJ, τρέπω
- LSJ, ὕπνος
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