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 INDEX 437 Athenians (coni.) — at Catana and prepare for a spring campaign, //>. fin. ; receive aid from home, tVi. 53 fin, 94 fin.; prosecute the campaign, i7>. 94 ; capture Epipolae and fortify Labdalum, /'/'. 96, 97 ; receive Sicilian reinforcements, id. 98 init.; begin to build a wall of circumvallation, and defeat the Syracusans in various engage- ments, i7>. 98-101; repulse the Sj'racusans from Epipolae, il>. 102 ; begin a double wall from Epipolae to the sea, id. 103 init., vii. 2 fin.; openly violate the peace with the Lacedae- monians, vi. 105; Athenian ships arrive at Rhegium too late to stop Gylippus, vii. i init ; re- turn no answer to Gylippus' de- mand that they shall quit Sicily, il>. 3 init. ; are driven out of Lab- dalum, i/>. fin. ; repulse an attack on their lines, i/>. 4 init. ; fortify Plemmyrium,/i!'. ; defeat the Sj'ra- cusans, i/>. 5 med. ; defeated by the Syracusans, id. 6 ; the Athenians, aided by Perdiccas, make an at- tempt upon Amphipolis, id. 9 ; the Athenians at home receive the despatch of Nicias, id. 10-15 ; send a second expedition to Sicily under Demosthenes,//'. 16; send a fleet round Peloponnese, id. 20; conquer the Syracusans at sea, but lose Plemmyrium, id. 22, 23 ; . skirmish with the Syracusans in the harbour, id. 25 med. ; ravage the Laconian coast, and fortify an isthmus there, //;. 26 ; resolve to send back some Thracians who have come too late to join the reinforcements to Sicily, id. 27 init. [who sack Mycalessus on their way, 29, 30] ; suffer terribly from the occupation of Decelea by the Lacedaemonians, id. 27, 28 ; Demosthenes meets Eury- medon with news from Sicily, id. 31 init. ; Demosthenes and Eu- rymedon collect troops in Acar- nania and Corc3'ra, /'/'. fin. ; the Athenians in Sicily induce the Siccls to destroy reinforcements on their way to Syracuse, id. 32 ; Demosthenes arrives at Thurii, i^' 33 ; the Athenians at Nau- pactus fight an indecisive en- gagement at sea with the Corinthians, id. 34 ; consider themselves defeated because not signally the victors, id. fin. ; de- feated at sea by the Syracusans, id. 37-41 ; repulsed in a night attack on Epipolae, id. 43-45 ; the Athenian generals hold a council, id. 47-49 init. ; Nicias wishes to delayand Demosthenes yields, id. 49 fin. ; Nicias at last consents to move, but terrified by an eclipse remains another 27 days, id. 50 ; the Athenians are again defeated at sea bj' the Syracusans, id. 52 ; gain a slight advantage by land, id. 53 ; why they failed to conquer Syracuse, id. 55 ; the list of their allies before Syracuse, id. 57 ; determine to fight their way out, ;/'. 60 ; Nicias addresses the troops, id. 61-64 ; and the trierarchs, /'/'. 69 ; the Athenians arc completly defeated at sea, id. 70, 71 ; overwhelmed by misery refuse to renew the struggle, id. 72 ; are misled by false information and delay their retreat three days, id. 73, 74 ; their miscrj' and terror ^vhen commencing the retreat, ;/'. 75 ; encouraged and consoled by Nic- ias, id. 76, 77; during four days are harassed and at length con- fronted by the enemy, id. 78, 79 ; fall back, id. 79 fin. ; recommence retreat, changing their route, id. 80 init. ; seized with a panic, id. med. ; the second division is