merchant-vessels

By such expedients as these the Syracusans, who made a great effort, gained the victory; and the Athenians, retreating between the merchant-vessels, took refuge at their own moorings.

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Then they came to Locri, and while they were at anchor there, one of the merchant-vessels from Peloponnesus sailed in, bringing some Thespian hoplites. 24 These the Syracusans took on board, and sailed homewards.

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Other merchant-vessels and lesser craft in great numbers followed of their own accord for purposes of trade.

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The ships of the enemy pursued them as far as the entrance, but they were prevented from following further by leaden dolphins, which were suspended aloft from beams placed in the merchant-vessels.

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They hoped that, if the attention of the Athenians was diverted by an opposing force, they would be unable to prevent their merchant-vessels from sailing.

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They prepared to convey hoplites to Sicily in merchant-vessels; the Lacedaemonians were to do the like from

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But Gylippus brought back a large army, together with the hoplites who had been sent in merchant-vessels from Peloponnesus in the spring,48 and had come by way of Libya to

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Peloponnesians to prepare, the succours which they intended to send in merchant-vessels to the Syracusans.

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Meanwhile the twenty-five ships which the Corinthians had manned in the winter lay opposite to the twenty Athenian ships at Naupactus until the merchant-vessels conveying the heavy-armed troops had got safely off.

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Triopium and seize the merchant-vessels which put in there from

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