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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 4, chapter 67 (search)
The Athenians, after plans had been arranged
between themselves and their correspondents both as to words and actions,
sailed by night to Minoa, the island off Megara, with six hundred heavy
infantry under the command of Hippocrates, and took post in a quarry not far
off, out of which bricks used to be taken for the walls;
itch to the sea, and so to sail out, bringing it back again before day
upon the cart, and taking it within the wall through the gates, in order, as
they pretended, to baffle the Athenian blockade at Minoa, there being no
boat to be seen in the harbour.
On the present occasion the cart was already at the gates, which had been
opened in the usual way for the boat, when the Ath
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 4, chapter 118 (search)