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84.
As soon as it was day Nicias put his army in
motion, pressed, as before, by the Syracusans and their allies, pelted from
every side by their missiles, and struck down by their javelins.
[2]
The Athenians pushed on for the Assinarus, impelled by the attacks made
upon them from every side by a numerous cavalry and the swarm of other arms,
fancying that they should breathe more freely if once across the river, and
driven on also by their exhaustion and craving for water.
[3]
Once there they rushed in, and all order was at an end, each man wanting to
cross first, and the attacks of the enemy making it difficult to cross at
all; forced to huddle together, they fell against and trod down one another,
some dying immediately upon the javelins, others getting entangled together
and stumbling over the articles of baggage, without being able to rise
again.
[4]
Meanwhile the opposite bank, which was steep, was lined by the Syracusans,
who showered missiles down upon the Athenians, most of them drinking
greedily and heaped together in disorder in the hollow bed of the river.
[5]
The Peloponnesians also came down and butchered them, especially those in
the water, which was thus immediately spoiled, but which they went on
drinking just the same, mud and all, bloody as it was, most even fighting to
have it.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.9
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER VI
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.72
- Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), 18.230
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, OMISSION OF THE SUBJECT
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, VERBAL NOUNS
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.1.3
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ASINARUS
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter II
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
- Smith's Bio, Calli'stratus
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- LSJ, ἄνωθεν
- LSJ, αἱμα^τ-όω
- LSJ, διαφθείρω
- LSJ, ἕτερος
- LSJ, ἐμπαλ-άσσομαι
- LSJ, ἐπικατα-βαίνω
- LSJ, ἐπιπίπτω
- LSJ, ἐπιθυ_μ-ία
- LSJ, καταπα^τ-έω
- LSJ, καταρρέω
- LSJ, κοῖλος
- LSJ, κρημν-ώδης
- LSJ, περιμάχ-ητος
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