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51.
and the Syracusans getting wind of what had happened, became more eager
than ever to press the Athenians, who had now themselves acknowledged that
they were no longer their superiors either by sea or by land, as otherwise
they would never have planned to sail away.
Besides which the Syracusans did not wish them to settle in any other part
of Sicily, where they would be more difficult to deal with, but desired to
force them to fight at sea as quickly as possible, in a position favorable
to themselves.
[2]
Accordingly they manned their ships and practised for as many days as they
thought sufficient.
When the moment arrived they assaulted on the first day the Athenian lines,
and upon a small force of heavy infantry and horse sallying out against them
by certain gates, cut off some of the former and routed and pursued them to
the lines, where, as the entrance was narrow, the Athenians lost seventy
horses and some few of the heavy infantry.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
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