A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary With Alexander the Great
A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary With Alexander the Great
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▼ery good aathority of the oontempo- Didot ^^ Digitized by VjOOQIC Chap. LX. GAFTUBE OF NIKIAB AND HIS DIVISION. 176 forced their way through the poets of the Syracneam. These men got safely away, and nothing bat the want of guides pre- yented them from escaping altogether.^ During all this painful retreat, the personal resolution dis- played by Nikias was exemplary. His sick and j^j^j^^ feeble frame was made to bear up, and even to tothertrm hearten up stronger men, against the extremi...ty of j^Jt^l^^e hardship, exhausting the last fragment of hope or thM and even possibility. It was now the sixth day of the thet^en retreat — six days' of constant privation, suffering, btodhSdoo and endurance of attack — ^yet Nikias early in the beoonM morning attempted a fresh march, in order to get ^ *"' to the river Asiiiiarus, which falls into the same sea, south of the Erineus, but is a more considerable stream, flowing deeply embedded between lofty banks. This was a last effort of despair, with little hope of final escape, even if they did reach it Yet the march was accomplished, in spite of renewed and incessant attacks all the way from the Syracusan cavalry, who even got to the river before the Athenians, occupjring the ford, and lining the high banks near it Here the resolution of tlie unhappy fugitives at length gave way: when they reached the river, their strength, their patience, their spirit, and their hopes for the future were all extinct Tormented with raging thirst, and compelled by the attacks of the cavalry to mardi in one compact mass, they rushed into the ford all at once, treading down and tumbling over each other in the universal avidi^ for drink.
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40, ed.
▼ery good aathority of the oontempo- Didot ^^ Digitized by VjOOQIC Chap. LX. GAFTUBE OF NIKIAB AND HIS DIVISION. 176 forced their way through the poets of the Syracneam. These men got safely away, and nothing bat the want of guides pre- yented them from escaping altogether.^ During all this painful retreat, the personal resolution dis- played by Nikias was exemplary. His sick and j^j^j^^ feeble frame was made to bear up, and even to tothertrm hearten up stronger men, against the extremi...ty of j^Jt^l^^e hardship, exhausting the last fragment of hope or thM and even possibility. It was now the sixth day of the thet^en retreat — six days' of constant privation, suffering, btodhSdoo and endurance of attack — ^yet Nikias early in the beoonM morning attempted a fresh march, in order to get ^ *"' to the river Asiiiiarus, which falls into the same sea, south of the Erineus, but is a more considerable stream, flowing deeply embedded between lofty banks. This was a last effort of despair, with little hope of final escape, even if they did reach it Yet the march was accomplished, in spite of renewed and incessant attacks all the way from the Syracusan cavalry, who even got to the river before the Athenians, occupjring the ford, and lining the high banks near it Here the resolution of tlie unhappy fugitives at length gave way: when they reached the river, their strength, their patience, their spirit, and their hopes for the future were all extinct Tormented with raging thirst, and compelled by the attacks of the cavalry to mardi in one compact mass, they rushed into the ford all at once, treading down and tumbling over each other in the universal avidi^ for drink.
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