Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . ^lippos that the Athenian army that was left shouldbe allowed to go free out of Sicily on condition ofAthens repaying to Syracuse all the costs of the war,and leaving citizen hostages till the money was SVKACUSAN bTONE QUARRY. 136 SICILY AND THE WARS OF OLD GREECE. This was refused ; the Athenians tried in vain toescape in the night. The next morning they set out,harassed as before, and driven wild by intolerablethirst. They at last reached the river Assinaros,which runs by the present town of Noto. There wasthe end. The Athenians had doubtless me
Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . ^lippos that the Athenian army that was left shouldbe allowed to go free out of Sicily on condition ofAthens repaying to Syracuse all the costs of the war,and leaving citizen hostages till the money was SVKACUSAN bTONE QUARRY. 136 SICILY AND THE WARS OF OLD GREECE. This was refused ; the Athenians tried in vain toescape in the night. The next morning they set out,harassed as before, and driven wild by intolerablethirst. They at last reached the river Assinaros,which runs by the present town of Noto. There wasthe end. The Athenians had doubtless meant to go up the bedof the river, and they did not expect to find so distanta stream guarded by S}-racusan troops. But so itwas. Yet the Athenians were so maddened by thirstthat, though men were falling under the darts and thewater was getting muddy and bloody, they thoughtof nothing but drinking. Then a body of Pelo-ponnesians were sent down to slay them in the riverbed. Nikias then prayed Gylippos to deal with himas he pleased, but to spare the slaughter of his further terms were made ; most of the horsmencontrived to cut their way out; the rest were madeprisoners. Most of them were embezzled by Syra-cusans as their private slaves;
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