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A Chastellux
used to go straggling about the country every evening to
get provisions. Lysander observed this and surprized
them. It is remarkable that no more than about a
year before the Athenians had taken the Lacedæmonian
fleet in the same manner. Conon too had made but a very little while before taken advantage of the same mismanagement to make his escape
from a superior Lacedæmonian fleet.⊞ ⊞ On this very occasion Lysander took had left behind so little of the fate of his ships in him the Sails Mainsails of his ships at a place from where the fugitive Conon ran away with them. by this same
p.72. Detestable cruelty of the Athenians. The people
had decreed ( ) in cool blood with but one dissenting voice
to cut off the right hands of all the captives they
should take: if they proved successful in a general
engagement they expected. Upon another occasion Philocles one of their commanders
taking having taken two straggling ships (if I remember
right without resistance) threw the whole crews overboard.
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jeremy bentham |
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letter 267, vol. 2; in french |
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