[147] Σημεῖα. The images which being set on the fore–part of the galley did give it the name for the most part.
[148] Thucyd. vi. 30. 32.
[149] Grecian citizens on service were always attended by slaves, as we have often had occasion to observe, who served as light infantry. The Athenians, however, also employed regular light–armed mercenaries, archers, and slingers from Crete and elsewhere.
[150] The rock of the citadel. So in Cumberland and Westmoreland there a score of Castle Crags.
[151] Supposing that the enemy had already occupied the valley of the Cacyparis; and hoping to reach the interior by turning up this valley.
[152] Goeller and Arnold read fifty stadia only.
[153] “The Syracusan heavy–armed infantry seems to have been of a very inferior description, and never to have encountered the Athenians with effect, except when supported by their cavalry. So the disciplined troops of Peloponnesus under Gylippus alone, ventured to close with the enemy, while the Syracusans confined themselves to harassing them from a distance with their missiles.”—Arnold.
[154] That is, such as the captors concealed, to make slaves of them for their own private advantage.
[155] A minute account of the transactions of the siege, of the geography of the neighbourhood of Syracuse, and the portion of country traversed by the Athenians, will be found at the end of the third volume of Arnold’s Thucydides.
[156] Sphacteria.