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 30 THE LACEDAEMONIANS SURRENDER [iV hopes that when they heard the offer of terms their courage might be broken, and that they might be induced by their desperate situation to yield up their arms. Accordingly they proclaimed to them that they might, if they would, surrender at discretion to the Athenians themselves and their arms. 38 Upon hearing the proclamation most of them lowered their shields and waved their hands in TheLacedacmomans token of their willingness to yield. A on the iiiatiilaiid s;ivc ° j^ their consent, an/ the truce was made, and then Cleon and offer is accepted. The Demosthenes on the part of the Athen- pnsoners bronght to j^^_ ^^^ Styphon the SOU of Pharax Athens tninibir fivo y j i hundred and nineiv- on the part of the Lacedaemonians, tivo,o/n'honi a hundred held a parley. Epitadas, who was the and twenty arc Spar- ^^^^ .^^ command, had been already tans. ' .•' slam; Hippagretas, who was next m succession, lay among the slain for dead; and Styphon had taken the place of the two others, having been appointed, as the law prescribed, in case an3'thing should happen to them. He and his companions expressed their wish to communi- cate with the Lacedaemonians on the mainland as to the course which they should pursue. The Athenians allowed none of them to stir, but themselves invited heralds from the shore ; and after two or three communications, the herald who came over last from the body of the army brought back word, 'The Lacedaemonians bid you act as you think best, but you are not to dishonour yourselves.' Where- upon they consulted together, and then gave up themselves and their arms. During that day and the following night the Athenians kept guard over them ; on the next day they set up a trophy on the island and made preparations to sail, distributing the prisoners among the trierarchs. The Lacedaemonians sent a herald and conveyed away their own dead. The number of the dead and the prisoners was as follows : — Four hundred and twenty hoplitcs in all passed over into the island ; of these, two hundred and ninety-two were brought to Athens