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Since the siege dragged on and the Athenians, after their victory1 with their ships, were preventing the conveyance of food to the land, the soldiers caught on the island2 were in danger of death from starvation.

1 Over the Spartan fleet; cp. Thuc. 4.14.

2 Sphacteria.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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