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50.
While the Athenians lingered on in this way
without moving from where they were, Gylippus and Sicanus now arrived at
Syracuse.
Sicanus had failed to gain Agrigentum, the party friendly to the Syracusans
having been driven out while he was still at Gela; but Gylippus was accompanied not only by a large number of troops raised in
Sicily, but by the heavy infantry sent off in the spring from Peloponnese in
the merchantmen, who had arrived at Selinus from Libya.
[2]
They had been carried to Libya by a storm, and having obtained two galleys
and pilots from the Cyrenians, on their voyage along shore had taken sides
with the Euesperitae and had defeated the Libyans who were besieging them,
and from thence coasting on to Neapolis, a Carthaginian mart, and the
nearest point to Sicily, from which it is only two days' and a night's
voyage, there crossed over and came to Selinus.
[3]
Immediately upon their arrival the Syracusans prepared to attack the
Athenians again by land and sea at once.
The Athenian generals seeing a fresh army come to the aid of the enemy, and
that their own circumstances, far from improving, were becoming daily worse,
and above all distressed by the sickness of the soldiers, now began to
repent of not having removed before; and Nicias no longer offering the same opposition, except by urging that
there should be no open voting, they gave orders as secretly as possible for
all to be prepared to sail out from the camp at a given signal.
[4]
All was at last ready, and they were on the point of sailing away, when an
eclipse of the moon, which was then at the full, took place.
Most of the Athenians, deeply impressed by this occurrence, now urged the
generals to wait; and Nicias, who was somewhat over-addicted to divination and practices of
that kind, refused from that moment even to take the question of departure
into consideration, until they had waited the thrice nine days prescribed by
the soothsayers.The besiegers were thus
condemned to stay in the country;
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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