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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 6, chapter 44 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 6, chapter 45 (search)
In the meantime came in from all quarters to
the Syracusans, as well as from their own officers sent to reconnoitre, the
positive tidings that the fleet was at Rhegium; upon which they laid aside their incredulity and threw themselves heart and
soul into the work of preparation.
Guards or envoys, as the case might be, were sent round to the Sicels,
garrisons put into the posts of the Peripoli in the country, horses and arms
reviewed in the city to see that nothing was wanting, and all other steps
taken to prepare for a war which might be upon them at any moment.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 6, chapter 46 (search)
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 generals were not a little disheartened at being thus disappointed at
the outset, and by the refusal to join in the expedition of the Rhegians,
the people they had first tried to gain and had had most reason to count
upon, from their relationship to the Leontines and constant friendship for
Athens.
If Nicias was prepared for the news from Egesta, his two colleagues were
taken completely by surprise.
The Egestaeans had had recourse to the following stratagem, when the firs
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 6, chapter 50 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 6, chapter 51 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 7, chapter 1 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 7, chapter 4 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 14, line 1 (search)