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95.
Meanwhile the Peloponnesian vessels sailed
by, and rounding Sunium anchored between Thoricus and Prasiae, and
afterwards arrived at Oropus.
[2]
The Athenians, with revolution in the city, and unwilling to lose a moment
in going to the relief of their most important possession （for
Euboea was everything to them now that they were shut out from
Attica）, were compelled to put to sea in haste and with untrained
crews, and sent Thymochares with some vessels to Eretria.
[3]
These upon their arrival, with the ships already in Euboea, made up a total
of thirty-six vessels, and were immediately forced to engage.
For Agesandridas, after his crews had dined, put out from Oropus, which is
about seven miles from Eretria by sea;
[4]
and the Athenians, seeing him sailing up, immediately began to man their
vessels.
The sailors, however, instead of being by their ships, as they supposed,
were gone away to purchase provisions for their dinner in the houses in the
outskirts of the town; the Eretrians having so arranged that there should be nothing on sale in
the market-place, in order that the Athenians might be a long time in
manning their ships, and the enemy's attack taking them by surprise, might
be compelled to put to sea just as they were.
A signal also was raised in Eretria to give them notice in Oropus when to
put to sea.
[5]
The Athenians, forced to put out so poorly prepared, engaged off the
harbour of Eretria, and after holding their own for some little while
notwithstanding, were at length put to flight and chased to the shore.
[6]
Such of their number as took refuge in Eretria, which they presumed to be
friendly to them, found their fate in that city, being butchered by the
inhabitants; while those who fled to the Athenian fort in the Eretrian territory, and
the vessels which got to Chalcis, were saved.
[7]
The Peloponnesians, after taking twenty-two Athenian ships, and killing or
making prisoners of the crews, set up a trophy, and not long afterwards
effected the revolt of the whole of Euboea （except Oreus, which was
held by the Athenians themselves）, and made a general settlement of
the affairs of the island.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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(2):
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.43
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XLII
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- Harper's, Prasiae
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AG´ORA
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EXE´RCITUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), A´TTICA
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- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 13.47
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 8.106
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- LSJ, ἀριστο-ποιέω
- LSJ, διέχω
- LSJ, ἔσχα^τος
- LSJ, ἐπισι_τ-ίζομαι
- LSJ, ἐπιτείχ-ισμα
- LSJ, φον-εύω
- LSJ, μέτρον
- LSJ, ὅπως
- LSJ, οἷος
- LSJ, πᾶς
- LSJ, περιβάλλω
- LSJ, πράσσω
- LSJ, πρόνοια
- LSJ, τρέπω
- LSJ, ὑπέρ
- LSJ, χαλεπ-ώτερον
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