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Contents of the Twelfth Book of Diodorus
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While
these events were taking place the Megarians were finding themselves in distress because of
their war with the Athenians on the one hand and with their exiles on the other hand. And while
representatives1 were exchanging opinions regarding the exiles, certain citizens2 who were hostile to the exiles approached the
Athenian generals with the offer to deliver the city to them.
[2]
The generals, Hippocrates and Demosthenes, agreeing to this betrayal, sent by night six
hundred soldiers to the city, and the conspirators admitted the Athenians within the walls.
When the betrayal became known throughout the city and while the multitude were divided
according to party, some being in favour of fighting on the side of the Athenians and others of
aiding the Lacedaemonians, a certain man,3 acting on his own initiative,
made the proclamation that any who so wished could take up arms on the side of the Athenians
and Megarians.
[3]
Consequently, when the Lacedaemonians were on
the point of being left in the lurch by the Megarians, it so happened that the Lacedaemonian
garrison of the long walls4 abandoned them and sought
safety in Nisaea, as it is called, which is the
sea-port of the Megarians.
[4]
The Athenians thereupon dug a ditch
about Nisaea and put it under siege, and then,
bringing skilled workmen from Athens, they threw a
wall about it. And the Peloponnesians, fearing lest they should be taken by storm and put to
death, surrendered Nisaea to the
Athenians.Such, then, were the affairs of the Megarians at this
time.
1 From the different parties in the city.
2 These represented the party of the masses; cp. Thuc. 4.66.
3 Thuc. 4.68.3 says he was the Athenian herald.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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