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 334 GREATNESS OF THE DISASTER victors, the most ruinous to tiie vanquished ; for they were utterly and at all points defeated, and their sufferings were prodigious. Fleet and army perished from the face of the earth ; nothing was saved, and of the many who went forth few returned home. Thus ended the Sicilian expedition.