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[2] And wishing to seize, without risk to themselves, the position1 on the Great Harbour of the Syracusans, they sent a man of Catane, who was loyal to themselves and was also trusted by the Syracusan generals, with instructions to say to the Syracusan commanders that a group of Catanaeans had banded together and were ready to seize unawares a large number of Athenians, who made it their practice to pass the night in the city away from their arms, and set fire to the ships in the harbour; and he was to ask the generals that, in order to effect this, they should appear at the place with troops so that they might not fail in their design.

1 This was near the Olympieum (Thuc. 6.64.2). The reader is referred to the map at the back of the book, which is based on the account of Thucydides.

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