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with the Selinuntines.
The envoys of the Athenians were accordingly dispatched to Sicily.
The same winter the Lacedaemonians and their allies, the Corinthians
excepted, marched into the Argive territory, and ravaged a small part
of the land, and took some yokes of oxen and carried off some corn.
They also settled the A... | {
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month's pay for sixty ships, which they were
to ask to have sent them. The Athenians held an assembly and, after
hearing from the Egestaeans and their own envoys a report, as attractive
as it was untrue, upon the state of affairs generally, and in particular
as to the money, of which, it was said, there was abundance i... | {
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thus do so in the safest way possible.
The Athenians, however, far from having their taste for the voyage
taken away by the burdensomeness of the preparations, became more
eager for it than ever; and just the contrary took place of what Nicias
had thought, as it was held that he had given good advice, and that
the expe... | {
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from the allies- not less than five
thousand heavy infantry in all, Athenian and allied, and if possible
more; and the rest of the armament in proportion; archers from home
and from Crete, and slingers, and whatever else might seem desirable,
being got ready by the generals and taken with them.
Upon hearing this the At... | {
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some resident aliens and body
servants, not about the Hermae but about some previous mutilations
of other images perpetrated by young men in a drunken frolic, and
of mock celebrations of the mysteries, averred to take place in private
houses. Alcibiades being implicated in this charge, it was taken hold
of by those who... | {
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man whom they already
caressed as the cause of the Argives and some of the Mantineans joining
in the expedition, and did their utmost to get this proposition rejected,
putting forward other orators who said that he ought at present to
sail and not delay the departure of the army, and be tried on his
return within a fix... | {
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if he had added to this the journey
money which each was likely to have provided himself with, independently
of the pay from the treasury, for a voyage of such length, and what
the soldiers or traders took with them for the purpose of exchange-
it would have been found that many talents in all were being taken
out of t... | {
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The whole force making land at the Iapygian
promontory and Tarentum, with more or less good fortune, coasted along
the shores of Italy, the cities shutting their markets and gates against
them, and according them nothing but water and liberty to anchor,
and Tarentum and Locri not even that, until they arrived at Rhegiu... | {
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that nothing was wanting, and
all other steps taken to prepare for a war which might be upon them
at any moment.
Meanwhile the three ships that had been sent on came from Egesta to
the Athenians at Rhegium, with the news that so far from there being
the sums promised, all that could be produced was thirty talents.
The ... | {
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allies in the war, they might at length attack
Syracuse and Selinus; unless the latter came to terms with Egesta
and the former ceased to oppose the restoration of Leontini.
Lamachus, on the other hand, said that they ought to sail straight
to Syracuse, and fight their battle at once under the walls of the
town while t... | {
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his support
to the opinion of Alcibiades. After this Alcibiades sailed in his
own vessel across to Messina with proposals of alliance, but met with
no success, the inhabitants answering that they could not receive
him within their walls, though they would provide him with a market
outside. Upon this he sailed back to R... | {
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so always along the coast to Camarina, where they brought to at
the beach, and sent a herald to the people, who, however, refused
to receive them, saying that their oaths bound them to receive the
Athenians only with a single vessel, unless they themselves sent for
more. Disappointed here, the Athenians now sailed back... | {
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relate at some length,
to show that the Athenians are not more accurate than the rest of
the world in their accounts of their own tyrants and of the facts
of their own history. Pisistratus dying at an advanced age in possession
of the tyranny, was succeeded by his eldest son, Hippias, and not
Hipparchus, as is vulgarly... | {
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of Apollo in the Pythian precinct. The Athenian people afterwards
built on to and lengthened the altar in the market-place, and obliterated
the inscription; but that in the Pythian precinct can still be seen,
though in faded letters, and is to the following effect:
Pisistratus, the son of Hippias,
Sent up this record o... | {
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Hipparchus famous that got him also the credit with posterity
of having been tyrant.
To return to Harmodius; Hipparchus having been repulsed in his solicitations
insulted him as he had resolved, by first inviting a sister of his,
a young girl, to come and bear a basket in a certain procession, and
then rejecting her, o... | {
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whom they had undertaken
all this risk, they rushed, as they were, within the gates, and meeting
with Hipparchus by the Leocorium recklessly fell upon him at once,
infuriated, Aristogiton by love, and Harmodius by insult, and smote
him and slew him. Aristogiton escaped the guards at the moment, through
the crowd runnin... | {
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inscription:
Archedice lies buried in this earth,
Hippias her sire, and Athens gave her birth;
Unto her bosom pride was never known,
Though daughter, wife, and sister to the throne. Hippias, after reigning
three years longer over the Athenians, was deposed in the fourth by
the Lacedaemonians and the banished Alcmaeonid... | {
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hostile to him, being
worked on by the same enemies who had attacked him before he went
out; and now that the Athenians fancied that they had got at the truth
of the matter of the Hermae, they believed more firmly than ever that
the affair of the mysteries also, in which he was implicated, had
been contrived by him in ... | {
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agitation in the army or among the enemy in Sicily,
and above all to retain the services of the Mantineans and Argives,
who, it was thought, had been induced to join by his influence. Alcibiades,
with his own ship and his fellow accused, accordingly sailed off with
the Salaminia from Sicily, as though to return to Athe... | {
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of the inhabitants gave up the town
to the Egestaeans, some of whose horse had joined them; after which
the army proceeded through the territory of the Sicels until it reached
Catana, while the fleet sailed along the coast with the slaves on
board. Meanwhile Nicias sailed straight from Hyccara along the coast
and went ... | {
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with the army having told them of the spot near the Olympieum,
which they afterwards occupied. In pursuance of their idea, the generals
imagined the following stratagem. They sent to Syracuse a man devoted
to them, and by the Syracusan generals thought to be no less in their
interest; he was a native of Catana, and sai... | {
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Meanwhile
the Athenians no sooner knew of their approach than they took all
their forces and such of the Sicels or others as had joined them,
put them on board their ships and boats, and sailed by night to Syracuse.
Thus, when morning broke the Athenians were landing opposite the Olympieum
ready to seize their camping ... | {
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the Athenians and their allies prepared for battle, their
dispositions being as follows: Their right wing was occupied by the
Argives and Mantineans, the centre by the Athenians, and the rest
of the field by the other allies. Half their army was drawn up eight
deep in advance, half close to their tents in a hollow squa... | {
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the chance of serving on
easier terms, after helping the Athenians to a fresh conquest.
The armies now came to close quarters, and for a long while fought
without either giving ground. Meanwhile there occurred some claps
of thunder with lightning and heavy rain, which did not fail to add
to the fears of the party fight... | {
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their secrets would be better
kept, all preparations would be properly made, and there would be
no room for excuses.
The Syracusans heard him, and voted everything as he advised, and
elected three generals, Hermocrates himself, Heraclides, son of Lysimachus,
and Sicanus, son of Execestes. They also sent envoys to Corin... | {
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the statue of Apollo Temenites,
all along the side looking towards Epipolae, to make the task of circumvallation
longer and more difficult, in case of their being defeated, and also
erected a fort at Megara and another in the Olympieum, and stuck palisades
along the sea wherever there was a landing Place. Meanwhile, as... | {
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peoples of the
interior who had never been otherwise than independent, with few exceptions,
at once joined the Athenians, and brought down corn to the army, and
in some cases even money. The Athenians marched against those who
refused to join, and forced some of them to do so; in the case of
others they were stopped by... | {
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Alcibiades, and considered
that they had heard it from the man who best knew the truth of the
matter. Accordingly they now turned their attention to the fortifying
of Decelea and sending immediate aid to the Sicilians; and naming
Gylippus, son of Cleandridas, to the command of the Syracusans, bade
him consult with that... | {
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it lies above the rest the place is called
by the Syracusans Epipolae or Overtown. They accordingly went out
in mass at daybreak into the meadow along the river Anapus, their
new generals, Hermocrates and his colleagues, having just come into
office, and held a review of their heavy infantry, from whom they
first selec... | {
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up a trophy and restored
to the Syracusans their dead under truce, and next day descended to
Syracuse itself; and no one coming out to meet them, reascended and
built a fort at Labdalum, upon the edge of the cliffs of Epipolae,
looking towards Megara, to serve as a magazine for their baggage and
money, whenever they ad... | {
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collecting stone and timber, which they
kept laying down towards Trogilus along the shortest line for their
works from the great harbour to the sea; while the Syracusans, guided
by their generals, and above all by Hermocrates, instead of risking
any more general engagements, determined to build a counterwork in
the dir... | {
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indifferent guard, appointed three hundred picked men of their
own, and some men picked from the light troops and armed for the purpose,
to run suddenly as fast as they could to the counterwork, while the
rest of the army advanced in two divisions, the one with one of the
generals to the city in case of a sortie, the o... | {
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from Epipolae into the plain, and laying
doors and planks over the marsh, where it was muddy and firmest, crossed
over on these, and by daybreak took the ditch and the stockade, except
a small portion which they captured afterwards. A battle now ensued,
in which the Athenians were victorious, the right wing of the Syra... | {
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through illness, and who now ordered the servants
to set fire to the engines and timber thrown down before the wall;
want of men, as he was aware, rendering all other means of escape
impossible. This step was justified by the result, the Syracusans
not coming any further on account of the fire, but retreating. Meanwhil... | {
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decision
was come to, but, as was natural with men in difficulties and besieged
more straitly than before, there was much discussion with Nicias and
still more in the town. Their present misfortunes had also made them
suspicious of one another; and the blame of their disasters was thrown
upon the ill-fortune or treache... | {
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and risk sailing in by sea, or, leaving it on
their left, should first sail to Himera and, taking with them the
Himeraeans and any others that might agree to join them, go to Syracuse
by land. Finally they determined to sail for Himera, especially as
the four Athenian ships which Nicias had at length sent off, on heari... | {
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a single
ship, was the first to reach Syracuse, a little before Gylippus. Gongylus
found the Syracusans on the point of holding an assembly to consider
whether they should put an end to the war. This he prevented, and
reassured them by telling them that more vessels were still to arrive,
and that Gylippus, son of Clean... | {
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meet him, upon seeing which
he quickly led his men back again. The Athenians now built their wall
higher, and in future kept guard at this point themselves, disposing
their confederates along the remainder of the works, at the stations
assigned to them. Nicias also determined to fortify Plemmyrium, a
promontory over ag... | {
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watch for them, with orders
to be on the look-out for them about Locris and Rhegium and the approach
to Sicily.
Gylippus, meanwhile, went on with the wall across Epipolae, using
the stones which the Athenians had laid down for their own wall, and
at the same time constantly led out the Syracusans and their allies,
and ... | {
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putting it out of their power any longer to stop them,
and depriving them, even if victorious in the field, of all chance
of investing the city for the future.
After this the remaining twelve vessels of the Corinthians, Ambraciots,
and Leucadians sailed into the harbour under the command of Erasinides,
a Corinthian, ha... | {
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Demosthenes, son of Alcisthenes,
and Eurymedon, son of Thucles. Eurymedon was sent off at once, about
the time of the winter solstice, with ten ships, a hundred and twenty
talents of silver, and instructions to tell the army that reinforcements
would arrive, and that care would be taken of them; but Demosthenes
stayed ... | {
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and a vigorous prosecution of the war. But the Lacedaemonians
derived most encouragement from the belief that Athens, with two wars
on her hands, against themselves and against the Siceliots, would
be more easy to subdue, and from the conviction that she had been
the first to infringe the truce. In the former war, they... | {
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the five-and-twenty vessels manned
by Corinth during the winter lay confronting the twenty Athenian ships
at Naupactus until the heavy infantry in the merchantmen were fairly
on their way from Peloponnese; thus fulfilling the object for which
they had been manned originally, which was to divert the attention
of the Ath... | {
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him Hermocrates actively joined in trying to encourage
his countrymen to attack the Athenians at sea, saying that the latter
had not inherited their naval prowess nor would they retain it for
ever; they had been landsmen even to a greater degree than the Syracusans,
and had only become a maritime power when obliged by ... | {
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twenty-five of these engaged the thirty-five of the Syracusans
in the great harbour, sending the rest to meet those sailing round
from the arsenal; and an action now ensued directly in front of the
mouth of the great harbour, maintained with equal tenacity on both
sides; the one wishing to force the passage, the other ... | {
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up a trophy
upon the islet in front of Plemmyrium, they retired to their own camp.
Unsuccessful at sea, the Syracusans had nevertheless the forts in
Plemmyrium, for which they set up three trophies. One of the two last
taken they razed, but put in order and garrisoned the two others.
In the capture of the forts a great... | {
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timber for shipbuilding,
which had been got ready for the Athenians, the Syracusan squadron
went to Locri, and one of the merchantmen from Peloponnese coming
in, while they were at anchor there, carrying Thespian heavy infantry,
took these on board and sailed alongshore towards home. The Athenians
were on the look-out ... | {
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armament with which he was to go to the
island, put out from Aegina, and making sail for Peloponnese, joined
Charicles and the thirty ships of the Athenians. Taking on board the
heavy infantry from Argos they sailed to Laconia, and, after first
plundering part of Epidaurus Limera, landed on the coast of Laconia,
opposi... | {
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their financial embarrassment; and it
was at this time that they imposed upon their subjects, instead of
the tribute, the tax of a twentieth upon all imports and exports by
sea, which they thought would bring them in more money; their expenditure
being now not the same as at first, but having grown with the war
while t... | {
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happened in the war, Demosthenes, whom we left sailing
to Corcyra, after the building of the fort in Laconia, found a merchantman
lying at Phea in Elis, in which the Corinthian heavy infantry were
to cross to Sicily. The ship he destroyed, but the men escaped, and
subsequently got another in which they pursued their vo... | {
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the Camarinaeans also came to the assistance of
Syracuse with five hundred heavy infantry, three hundred darters,
and as many archers, while the Geloans sent crews for five ships,
four hundred darters, and two hundred horse. Indeed almost the whole
of Sicily, except the Agrigentines, who were neutral, now ceased merely... | {
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he had not
been victorious; the Corinthians considering that they were conquerors,
if not decidedly conquered, and the Athenians thinking themselves
vanquished, because not decidedly victorious. However, when the Peloponnesians
sailed off and their land forces had dispersed, the Athenians also
set up a trophy as victor... | {
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and made their cheeks stouter, and from these let
stays into the vessels' sides for a length of six cubits within and
without, in the same way as the Corinthians had altered their prows
before engaging the squadron at Naupactus. The Syracusans thought
that they would thus have an advantage over the Athenian vessels,
wh... | {
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that is to say,
the heavy infantry that were there with the horse and the light troops
of the Syracusans, advanced against the wall from the opposite side;
the ships of the Syracusans and allies sailing out immediately afterwards.
The Athenians at first fancied that they were to be attacked by land
only, and it was not... | {
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pressed might be able
to retreat in safety and sail out again at leisure. These preparations
occupied the Athenians all day until nightfall.
The next day the Syracusans began operations at an earlier hour, but
with the same plan of attack by land and sea. A great part of the
day the rivals spent as before, confronting ... | {
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until
the Athenians at last resolved not to let themselves be worn out by
waiting where they were, but to attack without delay, and giving a
cheer, went into action. The Syracusans received them, and charging
prow to prow as they had intended, stove in a great part of the Athenian
foreships by the strength of their bea... | {
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Athens, consisting of about seventy-three ships,
including the foreigners; nearly five thousand heavy infantry, Athenian
and allied; a large number of darters, Hellenic and barbarian, and
slingers and archers and everything else upon a corresponding scale.
The Syracusans and their allies were for the moment not a littl... | {
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Athenians from investing them, was a single one,
and that he who should become master of the way up to Epipolae, and
afterwards of the camp there, would find no difficulty in taking it,
as no one would even wait for his attack, made all haste to attempt
the enterprise. This he took to be the shortest way of ending the
... | {
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raised their paean, no less than did the enemy. Thus,
after being once thrown into disorder, they ended by coming into collision
with each other in many parts of the field, friends with friends,
and citizens with citizens, and not only terrified one another, but
even came to blows and could only be parted with difficul... | {
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taking
the Athenian lines by storm, after the result of the affair on Epipolae.
In the meantime the Athenian generals consulted upon the disaster
which had happened, and upon the general weakness of the army. They
saw themselves unsuccessful in their enterprises, and the soldiers
disgusted with their stay; disease bein... | {
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of troops raised in Sicily, but by the
heavy infantry sent off in the spring from Peloponnese in the merchantmen,
who had arrived at Selinus from Libya. They had been carried to Libya
by a storm, and having obtained two galleys and pilots from the Cyrenians,
on their voyage alongshore had taken sides with the Euesperit... | {
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and horse sallying out against them by certain gates, cut
off some of the former and routed and pursued them to the lines, where,
as the entrance was narrow, the Athenians lost seventy horses and
some few of the heavy infantry.
Drawing off their troops for this day, on the next the Syracusans
went out with a fleet of s... | {
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a
few of their heavy infantry. They succeeded in rescuing most of their
ships and brought them down by their camp; eighteen however were taken
by the Syracusans and their allies, and all the men killed. The rest
the enemy tried to burn by means of an old merchantman which they
filled with faggots and pine-wood, set on ... | {
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defeated at sea, where defeat could never
have been expected, and were thus plunged deeper in embarrassment
than ever.
Meanwhile the Syracusans immediately began to sail freely along the
harbour, and determined to close up its mouth, so that the Athenians
might not be able to steal out in future, even if they wished. I... | {
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the Milesians,
Samians, and Chians from Ionia. The Chians, however, joined as independent
allies, paying no tribute, but furnishing ships. Most of these were
Ionians and descended from the Athenians, except the Carystians, who
are Dryopes, and although subjects and obliged to serve, were still
Ionians fighting against ... | {
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voluntary nature. It was
less the league than hatred of the Lacedaemonians and the immediate
private advantage of each individual that persuaded the Dorian Argives
to join the Ionian Athenians in a war against Dorians; while the Mantineans
and other Arcadian mercenaries, accustomed to go against the enemy
pointed out t... | {
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of the Syracusans. Of the Hellenes in Sicily the above peoples
joined in the war, all Dorians and independent, and of the barbarians
the Sicels only, that is to say, such as did not go over to the Athenians.
Of the Hellenes outside Sicily there were the Lacedaemonians, who
provided a Spartan to take the command, and a ... | {
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man their own also. Meanwhile
Nicias, appalled by the position of affairs, realizing the greatness
and the nearness of the danger now that they were on the point of
putting out from shore, and thinking, as men are apt to think in great
crises, that when all has been done they have still something left
to do, and when a... | {
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sides; while the huge
din caused by the number of ships crashing together not only spread
terror, but made the orders of the boatswains inaudible. The boatswains
on either side in the discharge of their duty and in the heat of the
conflict shouted incessantly orders and appeals to their men; the
Athenians they urged to... | {
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to make his preparations at his leisure
and to retreat by day. After saying this they departed; and their
hearers informed the Athenian generals, who put off going for that
night on the strength of this message, not doubting its sincerity.
Since after all they had not set out at once, they now determined
to stay also t... | {
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in the camp. Moreover their disgrace generally, and the
universality of their sufferings, however to a certain extent alleviated
by being borne in company, were still felt at the moment a heavy burden,
especially when they contrasted the splendour and glory of their setting
out with the humiliation in which it had ende... | {
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with them water from thence, as for many furlongs in front,
in the direction in which they were going, it was not plentiful. The
Syracusans meanwhile went on and fortified the pass in front, where
there was a steep hill with a rocky ravine on each side of it, called
the Acraean cliff. The next day the Athenians advanci... | {
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next day
the Syracusans surrounded and attacked them on every side, and disabled
many of them, falling back if the Athenians advanced and coming on
if they retired, and in particular assaulting their rear, in the hope
of routing them in detail, and thus striking a panic into the whole
army. For a long while the Athenia... | {
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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. Arrived
at the river, they found there also a Syracusan party engaged in barring
the passage of the ford with a wal... | {
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on, in order to form his men for battle, and so
lingered until he was surrounded by his pursuers and himself and the
Athenians with him placed in the most distressing position, being
huddled into an enclosure with a wall all round it, a road on this
side and on that, and olive-trees in great number, where missiles
were... | {
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} | 42,577,767 |
of four shields, and were immediately conveyed
by the Syracusans to the town.
Meanwhile Nicias with his division arrived that day at the river Erineus,
crossed over, and posted his army upon some high ground upon the other
side. The next day the Syracusans overtook him and told him that the
troops under Demosthenes had... | {
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from every side by their
missiles, and struck down by their javelins. 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 e... | {
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immediately
gave orders to make prisoners; upon which the rest were brought together
alive, except a large number secreted by the soldiery, and a party
was sent in pursuit of the three hundred who had got through the guard
during the night, and who were now taken with the rest. The number
of the enemy collected as publ... | {
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for
the state and for every man in his proper person to lose so many heavy
infantry, cavalry, and able-bodied troops, and to see none left to
replace them; but when they saw, also, that they had not sufficient
ships in their docks, or money in the treasury, or crews for the ships,
they began to despair of salvation. Th... | {
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that which would have threatened them from Athens, if she
had become mistress of Sicily, and that the overthrow of the Athenians
would leave them in quiet enjoyment of the supremacy over all Hellas.
Their king, Agis, accordingly set out at once during this winter with
some troops from Decelea, and levied from the allie... | {
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ships, and the Boeotians
the same number. All this was done without instructions from home,
as Agis while at Decelea with the army that he commanded had power
to send troops to whatever quarter he pleased, and to levy men and
money. During this period, one might say, the allies obeyed him much
more than they did the La... | {
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} | 42,577,785 |
Somali journalist: 'I was the only female reporter in my city' Published duration 25 September 2019
image copyright Maryan Seylac image caption Maryan reporting live from a conference in Somalia
Maryan Seylac is a journalist from Somalia. She was one of the first female reporters from her city, Baidoa, and set up an ... | {
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father was a teacher and he always wanted one member of our family to take that role from him. Because my older brothers and sisters didn't, he thought it would be me who would become a teacher - and I did, for a while. When I left high school I spent a year teaching in a school back home in Baidoa. But it was not the ... | {
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"OpenWebText2"
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} | 42,577,851 |
killed. As a journalist, her mission was to show another side to the country - its beauty and that of its people. She was amazing, but all of a sudden we lost her.
This is what happens in Somalia. We are all a target.
'I survived a suicide bombing'
There was a time when I was almost killed. It was September 2006, an... | {
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"OpenWebText2"
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} | 42,577,856 |
honoured to receive then former president Havel in the chamber during a joint session of Parliament. In the same year, he was also honoured as a Companion of the Order of Canada. I will forever remember being deeply moved by his testimony before us. He brought us back to first principles in saying:
Human liberties con... | {
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} | 42,578,031 |
did it only happen because of the power and force of those of us who lived in freedom in the west. It happened because the system was simply unsustainable economically, but more and more it became clear to people that it was unsustainable from a moral perspective.
There is no other person who has demonstrated better t... | {
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"Pile-CC"
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} | 42,578,036 |
had inspired a glove maker to become a kind of showman.
Very Like a Whale.
A very large shark was towed into port yesterday by the San Vicente. It was caught in Monterey Bay by the fishing steamer U. S. Grant. It is about thirty-five feet long, measures twenty feet in circumference and weighs nearly five tons. When t... | {
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"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,578,658 |
be made within a year. It is these two companies which will be eventually utilized by some big eastern road to get an outlet to the Bay of San Francisco.
The late Henry A. Butters, along with Louis Sloss, E. R. Lillienthal and other wealthy San Franciscans, built the Northern Electric system between Sacramento and Yub... | {
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"Pile-CC"
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} | 42,578,680 |
boiler related issues.
Nowadays we are lucky to be able to heat our homes at the flick of a switch and by using the services
High class Roman families were big fans of the bath house with many Roman villas containing their own bath house within their home set up. Roman engineers found a way to heat these based on a s... | {
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"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,578,979 |
winner who led nation with 2,194 yards. Purdue WR-KR Rondale Moore set school single-game and season records for all-purpose yards and was the first Big Ten true freshman to make first-team All-America. Nebraska's Martinez is coming off the most prolific freshman season in program history.
Ohio State DE Chase Young is... | {
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of most peaceful religions and philosophies are fighting back.
The Rohingya were also responsible for an insurgency in western Myanmar from 1947 until 1961, after the insurgency was stopped the remnants of the Islamists rose up against the government again with guerrilla warfare.
The most recent Rohingya attacks used... | {
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"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,580,906 |
Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmed Javed has been appointed Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which has a 2.8 million-strong Indian community.
New Delhi: Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmed Javed has been appointed Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which has a 2.8 million-strong Indian community.
The Ministry of External Affairs said... | {
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of his vehicle, which eventually hit a tree whose elbow-shaped branch protruded approximately 11 inches to the down slope of the far side of the ditch off the shoulder on the opposite side of the road from his lane of travel.
Upon his arrival to investigate the accident, State Trooper James Napier discovered that Allen... | {
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"FreeLaw",
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} | 42,581,832 |
of review is utilized, the majority is incorrect. It disregards the evidence in this case to reach a desired result, I suspect, because the actions of the young man in causing the accident. A full and thorough review of the record convinces me that the majority is clearly wrong in its assessment of the evidence.
Severa... | {
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"FreeLaw",
"FreeLaw"
]
} | 42,581,852 |
the ditch mowers had to go around the tree to grade the ditches. The state trooper experienced difficulty when passing by the tree with wide loads. The DOTD desires a uniform tree line along its roadways and in fact made attempts to keep all of the trees evenly lined along the roadway. The photographs reveal that the t... | {
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"FreeLaw",
"FreeLaw"
]
} | 42,581,859 |
death were the result of the negligence of fellow servants of the deceased.
4
Instead of filing a third party complaint against Mrs. Ollie B. Kincaid, the driver of the car which caused the injury, and her husband, Cecil B. Kincaid, in which all questions arising out of the agreement of settlement1 made between Mrs. ... | {
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} | 42,582,078 |
Monday, September 30, 2013
Simple Science Lessons
Sir Isaac Newton's published physics principles based upon Fullerene synergy discoveries by the simple science lessons, science got rid of the simple science lessons of Destruction has long been considered a recipe for social disaster. Plato referred to engineers who ... | {
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Cornford, educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, was made that the Centre's several seashell life-energy papers, written by the simple science lessons. In the simple science lessons of Western people would be overcome and science and scientific research. In short, the simple science lessons of us ... | {
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} | 42,582,223 |
Consolidated PBY Catalina Flying Boat
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PBY Catalina Patrol Bomber - Locating the Bismark and Japanese Fleet
U.S. National Archives photo.
Catalina Patrol Bombers played key roles in locating the German battleship Bismark in May of 1941, the Japanese fleet approaching Midway Island in Ju... | {
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Welcome to Frank Pozen's Big Bad Blog. A lot of folks have been asking me to update them about my recovery. So I thought I would start a blog primarily to do that but also to talk about other topics of interest including the wrestling business and whatever else I can think of. I plan to update this on a regular basis s... | {
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