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72.
The sea-fight having been a severe one, and
many ships and lives having been lost on both sides, the victorious
Syracusans and their allies now picked up their wrecks and dead, and sailed
off to the city and set up a trophy.
[2]
The Athenians, overwhelmed by their misfortune, never even thought of
asking leave to take up their dead or wrecks, but wished to retreat that
very night.
[3]
Demosthenes, however, went to Nicias and gave it as his opinion that they
should man the ships they had left and make another effort to force their
passage out next morning; saying that they had still left more ships fit for service than the enemy,
the Athenians having about sixty remaining as against less than fifty of
their opponents.
[4]
Nicias was quite of his mind; but when they wished to man the vessels, the sailors refused to go on
board, being so utterly overcome by their defeat as no longer to believe in
the possibility of success.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XXV
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- Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache, Von den Adjektiven und Participien insbesondere.
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.2
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- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 13.18
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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