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31.
On the rejection of this proposition the
generals let one day pass, and the next embarking all their heavy infantry
on board a few ships, put out by night, and a little before dawn landed on
both sides of the island from the open sea and from the harbour, being about
eight hundred strong, and advanced with a run against the first post in the
island.
[2]
The enemy had distributed his force as follows:—In this first
post there were about thirty heavy infantry; the center and most level part, where the water was, was held by the main
body, and by Epitadas their commander; while a small party guarded the very end of the island, towards Pylos,
which was precipitous on the sea-side and very difficult to attack from the
land, and where there was also a sort of old fort of stones rudely put
together, which they thought might be useful to them, in case they should be
forced to retreat.
Such was their disposition.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ἀπό-κρημνος
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