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49.
Such were the words of Diodotus.
The two opinions thus expressed were the ones that most directly
contradicted each other; and the Athenians, notwithstanding their change of feeling, now proceeded
to a division, in which the show of hands was almost equal, although the
motion of Diodotus carried the day.
[2]
Another trireme was at once sent off in haste, for fear that the first
might reach Lesbos in the interval, and the city be found destroyed; the first ship having about a day and a night's start.
[3]
Wine and barley-cakes were provided for the vessel by the Mitylenian
ambassadors, and great promises made if they arrived in time; which caused the men to use such diligence upon the voyage that they took
their meals of barley-cakes kneaded with oil and wine as they rowed, and
only slept by turns while the others were at the oar.
[4]
Luckily they met with no contrary wind, and the first ship making no haste
upon so horrid an errand, while the second pressed on in the manner
described, the first arrived so little before them, that Paches had only
just had time to read the decree, and to prepare to execute the sentence,
when the second put into port and prevented the massacre.
The danger of Mitylene had indeed been great.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ἀγχώμα^λος
- LSJ, ἀλλό-κοτος
- LSJ, ἀναγιγνώσκω
- LSJ, ἀντίπα^λος
- LSJ, ἔρχομαι
- LSJ, ἐπείγω
- LSJ, ἐπικατ-άγω
- LSJ, φθάνω
- LSJ, φύρω
- LSJ, φυρ-άω
- LSJ, ὅσος
- LSJ, πα^ρά
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- LSJ, τύχη
- LSJ, χειροτον-ία
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