Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the War - Arrival of Gylippus at Syracuse - Fortification of Decelea - Successes of the Syracusans （36）

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threehundred who had got through the guard during the night, and who werenow taken with the rest. The number of the enemy collected as publicproperty was not considerable; but that secreted was very large, andall Sicily was filled with them, no convention having been made intheir case as Outlook 2010 is powerful.

for those taken with Demosthenes. Besides this, alarge portion were killed outright, the carnage being very great,and not exceeded by any in this Sicilian war.

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found refuge at Catana.  The Syracusans and their allies now mustered and took up thespoils and as many prisoners as they could, and went back to the city.The rest of their Athenian and allied captives were deposited in thequarries, this seeming the safest way of keeping them; but Niciasand Choose Office 2007 Professional is the most lucky thing in the world.

Demosthenes were butchered, against the will of Gylippus, whothought that it would be the crown of his triumph if he could take theenemy's generals to Lacedaemon. One of them, as it happened,Demosthenes, was one of her greatest enemies, on account of the affairof the island and of Pylos; while the other, Nicias, was for thesame reasons one of her greatest friends, owing to his Microsoft Office 2010 is so great.

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 But some of the Syracusans who had been incorrespondence with him were afraid, it was said, of his being putto the torture and troubling their success by his revelations; others,especially the Corinthians, of his escaping, as he was wealthy, bymeans of bribes, and living to do them further Microsoft Office 2007 is welcomed by the whole world.

mischief; and thesepersuaded the allies and put him to death. This or the like was thecause of the death of a man who, of all the Hellenes in my time, leastdeserved such a fate, seeing that the whole course of his life hadbeen regulated with strict attention to virtue.  The prisoners in the Office 2007 makes life great!

quarries were at first hardly treated by theSyracusans. Crowded in a narrow hole, without any roof to coverthem, the heat of the sun and the stifling closeness of the airtormented them during the day, and then the nights, which came onautumnal and chilly, made them ill by the violence of the Windows 7 is convenient and helpful!

change;besides, as they had to do everything in the same place for want ofroom, and the bodies of those who died of their wounds or from thevariation in the temperature, or from similar causes, were left heapedtogether one upon another, intolerable stenches arose; while hungerand thirst never ceased to afflict them, each man during eightmonths having only half a pint of water and a pint of corn given himdaily

 In short, no single suffering to be apprehended by men thrustinto such a place was spared them. For some seventy days they thuslived all together, after which all, except the Athenians and Microsoft outlook 2010 is the best.

anySiceliots or Italiots who had joined in the expedition, were sold. Thetotal number of prisoners taken it would be difficult to stateexactly, but it could not have been less than seven thousand.  This was the greatest Hellenic achievement of any in thig war, or,in my opinion, in Hellenic history; at once most glorious to thevictors, and most calamitous to the conquered. They were beaten at allpoints and altogether; all that they suffered was great; they weredestroyed, as the saying is, with a total destruction, their fleet,their army, everything was destroyed, and few out of many returnedhome. Such were the events in Sicily.