Thuc. 7.46 — History of the Peloponnesian War

Thuc. 7.46 — History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides; served verbatim

After this the Syracusans, recovering their old confidence at such an unexpected stroke of good fortune, despatched Sicanus with fifteen ships to Agrigentum where there was a revolution, to induce if possible the city to join them; while Gylippus again went by land into the rest of Sicily to bring up reinforcements, being now in hope of taking the Athenian lines by storm, after the result of the affair on Epipolae.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass

battle of Epipolae — a candidate entry Gylippus — a life Sicanus — a candidate entry

History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides — translated by Richard Crawley, 1874
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