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After they were all aboard, and all things laid in that they meant to carry with them, silence was commanded by the trumpet;
and after the wine had been carried about to the whole army, and all, as well the generals as the soldiers, had drunk a health to the voyage, they made their prayers, such as by the law were appointed for before their taking sea, not in every galley apart, but all together, the herald pronouncing them.
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And the company from the shore, both of the city and whosoever else wished them well, prayed with them.
And when they had sung the Paean and ended the health, they put forth to sea;
and having at first gone out in a long file, galley after galley, they after went a vie by Aegina.
Thus hasted these to be at Corcyra, to which place also the other army of the confederates were assembling.
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At Syracuse they had advertisement of the voyage from divers places;
nevertheless it was long ere anything would be believed.
Nay, an assembly being there called, orations were made, such as follow, on both parts, as well by them that believed the report touching the Athenian army to be true as by others that affirmed the contrary.
And Hermocrates the son of Hermon, as one that thought he knew the certainty, stood forth and spake to this effect:
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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