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83.
The next day the Syracusans overtook him and told him that the troops under
Demosthenes had surrendered, and invited him to follow their example.
Incredulous of the fact, Nicias asked for a truce to send a horseman to
see,
[2]
and upon the return of the messenger with the tidings that they had
surrendered, sent a herald to Gylippus and the Syracusans, saying that he
was ready to agree with them on behalf of the Athenians to repay whatever
money the Syracusans had spent upon the war if they would let his army go; and offered until the money was paid to give Athenians as hostages, one for
every talent.
[3]
The Syracusans and Gylippus rejected this proposition, and attacked this
division as they had the other, standing all round and plying them with
missiles until the evening.
[4]
Food and necessaries were as miserably wanting to the troops of Nicias as
they had been to their comrades; nevertheless they watched for the quiet of the night to resume their march.
But as they were taking up their arms the Syracusans perceived it and
raised their paean,
[5]
upon which the Athenians, finding that they were discovered, laid them down
again, except about three hundred men who forced their way through the
guards and went on during the night as they were able.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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