322 THE BEATEN HOST BEGINS TO MOVE [vil and those who had heard them informed the Athenian generals. 74 On receiving this message, which they supposed to be genuine, they remained during the night. And having once given up the intention of starting immediately, they decided to remain during the next day, that the soldiers might, as well as they could, put together their baggage in the most convenient form, and depart, taking with them the bare necessaries of life, but nothing else. Meanwhile the Syracusans and Gylippus, going forth . • ,/ c ^ before them with their land-forces, and so gives the Syia- ■-"-•" aisans tmie to block the blocked the roads in the country by
- '0(ids. which the Athenians were likely to pass,
guarded the fords of the rivers and streams, and posted themselves at the best points for receiving and stopping them. Their sailors rowed up to the beach and dragged away the Athenian ships. The Athenians themselves had burnt a few of them, as they had intended", but the rest the Syracusans towed away, unmolested and at their leisure, from the places where they had severally run aground, and conveyed them to the city. 75 On the third day after the sea-fight, when Nicias and Misery 0/ the depar- Demosthenes thought that their pre- /««■. There are sights parations Were complete, the army o/ death everywhere; ^gg^n to movc. They Were in a (he sick and ivonttded , , . , ... , . . i are left behind, casing dreadful Condition ; not only was there their comrades; the the great fact that they had lost their vast army is in tears; ^^^qq flggt^ j^,-,(l instead of their ex- ihe sense of disgrace, . ,,i. i^^^u ,. i. the want of food, and pected triumph had brought the utmost the contrast between peril upon Athens as well as upon their arrival and their themsclves, but also the sights which departure, quite over- , i ^i i 4.1 •»* A power than. Yet more presented themselves as they quitted overu>helming is the the camp Were painful to every eye and thmght of the future. mine}. The dcad were unburied, and when anyone saw the body of a friend lying on the ground Inserting a comma after lmvoi]Qrao.v.
