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    Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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    LXVII. The next day the Athenians and their allies prepared for battle, their dispositions being as follows:--Their right wing was occupied by the Argives and Mantineans, the centre by the Athenians, and the rest of the field by the other allies. Half their army was drawn up eight deep in advance, half close to their tents in a hollow square, formed also eight deep, which had orders to look out and be ready to go to the support of the troops hardest pressed. The camp followers were placed inside this reserve. [2] The Syracusans, meanwhile, formed their heavy infantry sixteen deep, consisting of the mass-levy of their own people, and such allies as had joined them, the strongest contingent being that of the Selinuntines; next to them the cavalry of the Geloans, numbering two hundred in all, with about twenty horse and fifty archers from Camarina. The cavalry was posted on their right, full twelve hundred strong, and next to it the darters. [3] As the Athenians were about to begin the attack, Nicias went along the lines, and addressed these words of encouragement to the army and the nations composing it:--


    There are a total of 17 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6:
    book 6 (general note)
    book 6, chapter 67 (general note)
    book 6, chapter 67, section 1: hôs es machên
    book 6, chapter 67, section 1: to men hêmisn
    book 6, chapter 67, section 1: ponêi
    book 6, chapter 67, section 1: ephorôntas
    book 6, chapter 67, section 1: tôn epitaktôn
    book 6, chapter 67, section 1: eunai
    book 6, chapter 67, section 1: epoiêsanto
    book 6, chapter 67, section 2: eph hekkaideka
    book 6, chapter 67, section 2: malista
    book 6, chapter 67, section 2: epi tôi dexiôi
    book 6, chapter 67, section 3: proterois epicheirhêsein
    book 6, chapter 67, section 3: epipariôn

    Further comments from Charles Forster Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 6:
    book 6 (general note)
    book 6, chapter 67: dexion keras
    book 6, chapter 67: epi oktô
    book 6, chapter 67: epi tais eunais
    book 6, chapter 67: en plaisiôi
    book 6, chapter 67: hois eirêto
    book 6, chapter 67: ponêi malista
    book 6, chapter 67: ephorôntas
    book 6, chapter 67: paragignesthai
    book 6, chapter 67: entos...epoiêsanto
    book 6, chapter 67: tôn epitaktôn
    book 6, chapter 67: hoi de Surakosioi etaxan
    book 6, chapter 67: pandêmei Surakosious
    book 6, chapter 67: Selinountioi men malista
    book 6, chapter 67: kai Kamarinaiôn hippês
    book 6, chapter 67: hoson eikosi
    book 6, chapter 67: epetaxanto epi tôi dexiôi
    book 6, chapter 67: tous akontistas
    book 6, chapter 67: proterois epicheirêsein
    book 6, chapter 67: kata ethnê epipariôn hekasta

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    541 [Bemerkungen über den Gebrauch des ê und des Genetivs bei dem Komparative.]

    Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
    4, 89

    Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
    5, 2
    5, 10
    5, 72

    Cross references from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
    7, 158

    Cross references from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
    1, 50
    1, 48

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.


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