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87.
The prisoners in the quarries were at first
hardly treated by the Syracusans.
Crowded in a narrow hole, without any roof to cover them, the heat of the
sun and the stifling closeness of the air tormented them during the day, and
then the nights which came on autumnal and chilly, made them ill by the
violence of the change;
[2]
besides, as they had to do everything in the same place for want of room,
and the bodies of those who died of their wounds or from the variation in
the temperature, or from similar causes, were left heaped together one upon
another, intolerable stenches arose; while hunger and thirst never ceased to afflict them, each man during eight
months having only half a pint of water and a pint of corn given him daily.
In short, no single suffering to be apprehended by men thrust into such a
place was spared them.
[3]
For some seventy days they thus lived all together, after which all, except
the Athenians and any Siceliots or Italiots who had joined in the
expedition, were sold.
[4]
The total number of prisoners taken it would be difficult to state exactly,
but it could not have been less than seven thousand.
[5]
This was the greatest Hellenic achievement of
any in this war, or, in my opinion, in Hellenic history; at once most glorious to the victors, and most calamitous to the conquered.
[6]
They were beaten at all points and altogether; all that they suffered was great; they were destroyed, as the saying is, with a total destruction, their
fleet, their army—everything was destroyed, and few out of many
returned home.
Such were the events in Sicily.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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