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29.
Accordingly, not wishing to incur expense in
their present want of money, they sent back at once the Thracians who came
too late for Demosthenes, under the conduct of Diitrephes, who was
instructed, as they were to pass through the Euripus, to make use of them if
possible in the voyage along shore to injure the enemy.
[2]
Diitrephes first landed them at Tanagra and hastily snatched some booty; he then sailed across the Eurious in the evening from Chalcis in Euboea and
disembarking in Boeotia led them against Mycalessus.
[3]
The night he passed unobserved near the temple of Hermes, not quite two
miles from Mycalessus, and at daybreak assaulted and took the town, which is
not a large one; the inhabitants being off their guard and not expecting that any one would
ever come up so far from the sea to molest them, the wall too being weak,
and in some places having tumbled down, while in others it had not been
built to any height, and the gates also being left open through their
feeling of security.
[4]
The Thracians bursting into Mycalessus sacked the houses and temples, and
butchered the inhabitants, sparing neither youth nor age, but killing all
they fell in with, one after the other, children and women, and even beasts
of burden, and whatever other living creatures they saw; the Thracian race, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most so
when it has nothing to fear.
[5]
Everywhere confusion reigned and death in all its shapes; and in particular they attacked a boys' school, the largest that there was
in the place, into which the children had just gone, and massacred them all.
In short, the disaster falling upon the whole town was unsurpassed in
magnitude, and unapproached by any in suddenness and in horror.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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