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340 340 HISTORY OF GREECE. the foremost division was nearly six miles ahead, between Ihti Kakyparis and the Erineus. When the Syracusans discovered at dawn that their enemy had made off in the night, their first impulse was to accuse Gy- lippus of treachery in having permitted the escape. Such un- grateful surmises, however, were soon dissipated, and the cavalry set forth in rapid pursuit, until they overtook the rear division, which they immediately began to attack and impede. The ad- vance of Demosthenes had been tardy before, and his division disorganized : but he was now compelled to turn and defend him- self against an indefatigable enemy, who presently got before him and thus stopped him altogether. Their numerous light troops and cavalry assailed him on all sides and without intermission ; employing nothing but missiles, however, and taking care to avoid any close encounter. While this unfortunate division were exerting their best efforts both to defend themselves, and if possible to get forward, they found themselves inclosed in a walled olive-ground, through the middle of which the road passed ; a farm bearing the name, and probably once the property, of Polyzelus, brother of the despot Gelon. 1 Entangled and huddled up in this inclosure, from whence exit at the farther end in the face of an enemy was found impossible, they were now overwhelmed with hostile mis- siles from the walls on all sides. 2 Though unable to get at the en- 1 Plutarch, Nikias, c. 27. 2 Thucyd. vii, 81. Kai TOTE yvoi'f (sc. Demosthenes) TCVC ov Trpoi'xtjpei yuuAAov i) tf paxijv ^vveruaaero, iu$ evdiarpifiuv i re vn* aiiruv, /cat iv 7roAA<> dopvfiu atroc re KOI ol (lei 3 avrov 'A-&Tjvaloi rjaav uvei^ij^evref yap ef TI upiov, 9 KVK^U HEV TEIX'LOV TrepiTJv, oddc 6e ev&ev re Kal EV&EV, i/iuaf 6e owe 6/Uyaf el-^ev, ipdMovro I translate 6Jdf 61 evdev re nal ev&ev differently from Dr. Arnold, from Mitford, and from others. These words are commonly understood to mean that this walled plantation was bordered by two roads, one on each side. Certainly the words might have that signification ; but I think they also may have the signification (compare ii, 76) which I have given in the text, and which seems more plausible. It certainly is very improbable that the Athe- nians should have gone out of the road, in order to shelter themselves in the plantation ; since they were fully aware that there was no safety for them except in getting away. If we suppose that the plantation lay exactly in the road, the word laftihf9ivTet becomes perfectly explicable, on which