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Meanwhile Hippocrates made a levy in mass of
the citizens, resident aliens, and foreigners in Athens, and arrived at his
destination after the Boeotians had already come back from Siphae, and
encamping his army began to fortify Delium, the sanctuary of Apollo, in the
following manner.
[2]
A trench was dug all round the temple and the consecrated ground, and the
earth thrown up from the excavation was made to do duty as a wall, in which
stakes were also planted, the vines round the sanctuary being cut down and
thrown in, together with stones and bricks pulled down from the houses near; every means, in short, being used to run up the rampart.
Wooden towers were also erected where they were wanted, and where there was
no part of the temple buildings left standing, as on the side where the
gallery once existing had fallen in.
[3]
The work was begun on the third day after leaving home, and continued
during the fourth, and till dinner-time on the fifth,
[4]
when most of it being now finished the army removed from Delium about a
mile and a quarter on its way home.
From this point most of the light troops went straight on, while the heavy
infantry halted and remained where they were; Hippocrates having stayed behind at Delium to arrange the posts, and to
give directions for the completion of such part of the outworks as had been
left unfinished.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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