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27.
Accordingly they resolved to relieve it the
next morning.
Meanwhile Phrynichus, the Athenian commander, had received precise
intelligence of the fleet from Leros, and when his colleagues expressed a
wish to keep the sea and fight it out, flatly refused either to stay himself
or to let them or any one else do so if he could help it.
[2]
Where they could hereafter contend, after full and undisturbed preparation,
with an exact knowledge of the number of the enemy's fleet and of the force
which they could oppose to him, he would never allow the reproach of
disgrace to drive him into a risk that was unreasonable.
[3]
It was no disgrace for an Athenian fleet to retreat when it suited them:
put it as they would, it would be more disgraceful to be beaten, and to
expose the city not only to disgrace, but to the most serious danger.
After its late misfortunes it could hardly be justified in voluntarily
taking the offensive even with the strongest force, except in a case of
absolute necessity: much less then without compulsion could it rush upon
peril of its own seeking.
[4]
He told them to take up their wounded as quickly as they could and the
troops and stores which they had brought with them, and leaving behind what
they had taken from the enemy's country, in order to lighten the ships, to
sail off to Samos, and there concentrating all their ships to attack as
opportunity served.
[5]
As he spoke so he acted; and thus not now more than afterwards, nor in this alone but in all that he
had to do with, did Phrynichus show himself a man of sense.
[6]
In this way that very evening the Athenians broke up from before Miletus,
leaving their victory unfinished, and the Argives, mortified at their
disaster, promptly sailed off home from Samos.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 1318
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.65
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXVIII
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE ARTICLE—ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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- LSJ, ἀγων-ίζομαι
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- LSJ, ἀτελής
- LSJ, διακινδυ_ν-εύω
- LSJ, διαναυμα^χέω
- LSJ, ἑκούσι-ος
- LSJ, ἦπου
- LSJ, κίνδυν-ος
- LSJ, κοῦφος
- LSJ, ὅστις
- LSJ, ποῦ
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- LSJ, τραυμα^τ-ίας
- LSJ, τρόπος
- LSJ, ὕστερος
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