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97.
Meanwhile the Athenians, the very same
morning, were holding a review, having already made land unobserved with all
the armament from Catana, opposite a place called Leon, not much more than
half a mile from Epipolae, where they disembarked their army, bringing the
fleet to anchor at Thapsus, a peninsula running out into the sea, with a
narrow isthmus, and not far from the city of Syracuse either by land or
water.
[2]
While the naval force of the Athenians threw a stockade across the isthmus
and remained quiet at Thapsus, the land army immediately went on at a run to
Epipolae, and succeeded in getting up by Euryelus before the Syracusans
perceived them, or could come up from the meadow and the review.
[3]
Diomilus with his six hundred and the rest advanced as quickly as they
could, but they had nearly three miles to go from the meadow before reaching
them.
[4]
Attacking in this way in considerable disorder, the Syracusans were
defeated in battle at Epipolae and retired to the town, with a loss of about
three hundred killed, and Diomilus among the number.
[5]
After this the Athenians set up a trophy and restored to the Syracusans
their dead under truce, and next day descended to Syracuse itself; and no one coming out to meet them, reascended and built a fort at
Labdalum, upon the edge of the cliffs of Epipolae, looking towards Megara,
to serve as a magazine for their baggage and money, whenever they advanced
to give battle or to work at the lines.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.2
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER CXXIX
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE CASES
- Harper's, Apothēca
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), APOTHE´CA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LEON
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- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 7.2
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 7.43
- Plutarch, Nicias, Plut. Nic. 17
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- LSJ, ἀποβι^β-άζω
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