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80.
During the night Nicias and Demosthenes,
seeing the wretched condition of their troops, now in want of every kind of
necessary, and numbers of them disabled in the numerous attacks of the
enemy, determined to light as many fires as possible, and to lead off the
army, no longer by the same route as they had intended, but towards the sea
in the opposite direction to that guarded by the Syracusans.
[2]
The whole of this route was leading the army not to Catana but to the other
side of Sicily, towards Camarina, Gela, and the other Hellenic and barbarian
towns in that quarter.
[3]
They accordingly lit a number of fires and set out by night.
Now all armies, and the greatest most of all, are liable to fears and
alarms, especially when they are marching by night through an enemy's
country and with the enemy near; and the Athenians falling into one of these panics,
[4]
the leading division, that of Nicias, kept together and got on a good way
in front, while that of Demosthenes, comprising rather more than half the
army, got separated and marched on in some disorder.
[5]
By morning, however, they reached the sea, and getting into the Helorine
Road, pushed on in order to reach the river Cacyparis, and to follow the
stream up through the interior, where they hoped to be met by the Sicels
whom they had sent for.
[6]
Arrived at the river, they found there also a Syracusan party engaged in
barring the passage of the ford with a wall and a palisade, and forcing this
guard, crossed the river and went on to another called the Erineus,
according to the advice of their guides.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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