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Cont ll CONTENTS. Dioklcides. Mori prisoners arrested increased terror in the eitv An dokides among the persons imprisoned. Andokides is solicited* l>y his fellow-prisoners to stand forward and give information he complies. Andokides designates the authors of the mutilation of the Hermae con sequence of his revelations. Questionable authority of Andokides, as to what he himself really stated in information. Belief of the Athenians in his information its tranquillizing effects. Anxiety and alarm revived, respecting the persons concerned in the profanation of the Elcusinian mys- teries. Revival of the accusation against Alkibiades. Indictment pre- sented by Thessalus, son of Kimon, against Alkibiades. Resolution to send for Alkibiades home from Sicily to be tried. Alkibiades quits the army, as if to come home : makes his escape at Thurii, and retires to Pelo- ponnesus. Conduct of the Athenian public in reference to Alkibiades now far blamable. Conduct of his enemies. Mischief to Athens from the banishment of Alkibiades. Languid operations of the Sicilian armament under Nikias. Increase of confidence and preparations at Syracuse, aris- ing from the delays of Nikias. Manoeuvre of Nikias from Katana he lands his forces in the Great Harbor of Syracuse. Return of the Syracusan army from Katana to the Great Harbor preparations for fighting Nikias. Feelings of the ancient soldier. Harangue of Nikias. Battle near the Olympieion victory of the Athenians. Unabated confidence of the Syracusans they garrison the Olympieion Nikias reembarks his army, and returns to Katana. He determines to take up his winter quarters at Katana, and sends to Athens for reinforcements of horse. His failure at Messene, through the betrayal by Alkibiades. Salutary lesson to the Syracusans, arising out of the recent defeat mischiefs to the Athenians from the delay of Nikias. Confidence of the Athenians at home in Nikias their good temper they send to him the reinforce- ments demanded. Determined feeling at Syracuse improved meas- ures of defence recommendations of Hermokrates. Enlargement of the fortifications of Syracuse. Improvement of their situation. Increase of the difficulties of Nikias. Hermokrates and EuphCmus counter- envoys at Kamarina. Speech of Euphemus. The Kamarinseans main- tain practical neutrality. Winter proceedings of Nikias from his quar- ters at Katana. Syracusan envoys sent to solicit aid from Corinth and Sparta. AJkibiades at Sparta his intense hostility to Athens. Speech of Alkibiades in the Lacedaemonian assembly. Great effect of his speech on the Peloponnesians. Misrepresentations contained in the speech. Resolutions of the Spartans. The Lacedaemonians sen 1 Gy- lippus to Syracuse 163-243 CHAPTER LIX FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OP THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE BY NtXIAS, DOWN TO THE SECOND ATHENIAN EXPEDITION UNDER DEMOSTHENES, AND THE RESUMPTION OF THE GENERAL WAR. Movements of Nikias in the early spring. Local condition and fortifica- tions of Syracuse, at the time when Nikias arrived. Inner and Outer City. Localities without the wall of the outer city Epipolae. Possi- bilities of the siege when Nikias first a- rived in Sicily increase of diffi- tulties through his delay. Increased importance of the upper ground