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69.
After the above address to the soldiers on
their side, the Syracusan generals and Gylippus now perceived that the
Athenians were manning their ships, and immediately proceeded to man their
own also.
[2]
Meanwhile Nicias, appalled by the position of affairs, realizing the
greatness and the nearness of the danger now that they were on the point of
putting out from shore, and thinking, as men are apt to think in great
crises, that when all has been done they have still something left to do,
and when all has been said that they have not yet said enough, again called
on the captains one by one, addressing each by his father's name and by his
own, and by that of his tribe, and adjured them not to belie their own
personal renown, or to obscure the hereditary virtues for which their
ancestors were illustrious; he reminded them of their country, the freest of the free, and of the
unfettered discretion allowed in it to all to live as they pleased; and added other arguments such as men would use at such a crisis, and
which, with little alteration, are made to serve on all occasions
alike—appeals to wives, children, and national
gods,—without caring whether they are thought common-place, but
loudly invoking them in the belief that they will be of use in the
consternation of the moment.
[3]
Having thus admonished them, not, he felt, as he would, but as he could,
Nicias withdrew and led the troops to the sea, and ranged them in as long a
line as he was able, in order to aid as far as possible in sustaining the
courage of the men afloat;
[4]
while Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, who took the command on board,
put out from their own camp and sailed straight to the barrier across the
mouth of the harbor and to the passage left open, to try to force their way
out.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ἀφα^ν-ίζω
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- LSJ, ἀντιπληρόω
- LSJ, ἀρχαιο-λογέω
- LSJ, ἔξω
- LSJ, ἐπιβο-άω
- LSJ, φυ^λάσσω
- LSJ, λαμπρότης
- LSJ, ὅ τι
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