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[4] In the end he suffered much loss of blood from the wounds, and as he lost consciousness his arm extended over the side of the ship and his shield,1 slipping off and falling into the sea, came into the hands of the enemy.

1 The inscription on a shield found in the Agora excavations states that it was taken by the Athenians from Lacedaemonians at Pylos (Shear in Hesperia, 6 (1937), 347-348). It must have originally belonged to the collection of shields taken at Pylos which Pausanias (Paus. 1.15.4) saw suspended as trophies in the Stoa Poikile, although the cistern in which it was found had been filled before the third century B.C. No doubt the captured shield of the Spartan captain occupied a central place in this collection.

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