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Yet more exciting action sequences from Thucydides! (Though it's a good thing I have a friend to check my work against, or I'd have had men doing some very strange things to walls at one point.)
2.4.1 And the deceived men became aware (of all this), and were rallying among themselves and repelling the attacks which fell upon them.
2.4.2 And they drove off the attack two or three times. Then with much noise, the men attacked, and their wives and their slaves together were shouting and cheering from the houses, and throwing stones and pottery. And also much rain was added in throughout the night. They were terrified and, turning around, fled through the city. And, unused to being in darkness and mud (for the moon was also in its last waning), the greater number of men did not flee through the roads which they needed to save themselves, the pursuers having experience (with those roads), so that the majority were utterly destroyed.
2.4.3 And some Plataian shut the gates with the point of a javelin against the fastenings, doing what was necessary to the bar--the gates which they went through and which alone were open--so that no exit would still exist by this gate.
2.4.4 And pursued through the city, some men went up a wall and threw themselves out, and most were destroyed; and others went out through a deserted gate, by getting an axe which a woman gave them and cutting through the bar, though not many of them (for it was quickly noticed); and the others were destroyed scattered through various parts of the city.
2.4.5 And the majority, as many as were tightly bunched together, fell back into a large building, which was by the wall, and the doors of which happened to be open; they were thinking the doors of the building were a passage straight to the outside.
2.4.6 And on seeing them cut off, the Plataians debated whether to burn them where they were, setting fire to the house, or to try something else.
2.4.7 And at least these men and other Thebans wandering about the city were spared; they agreed it was necessary to hand over themselves and their weapons as the Plataians wished.
2.4.1 And the deceived men became aware (of all this), and were rallying among themselves and repelling the attacks which fell upon them.
2.4.2 And they drove off the attack two or three times. Then with much noise, the men attacked, and their wives and their slaves together were shouting and cheering from the houses, and throwing stones and pottery. And also much rain was added in throughout the night. They were terrified and, turning around, fled through the city. And, unused to being in darkness and mud (for the moon was also in its last waning), the greater number of men did not flee through the roads which they needed to save themselves, the pursuers having experience (with those roads), so that the majority were utterly destroyed.
2.4.3 And some Plataian shut the gates with the point of a javelin against the fastenings, doing what was necessary to the bar--the gates which they went through and which alone were open--so that no exit would still exist by this gate.
2.4.4 And pursued through the city, some men went up a wall and threw themselves out, and most were destroyed; and others went out through a deserted gate, by getting an axe which a woman gave them and cutting through the bar, though not many of them (for it was quickly noticed); and the others were destroyed scattered through various parts of the city.
2.4.5 And the majority, as many as were tightly bunched together, fell back into a large building, which was by the wall, and the doors of which happened to be open; they were thinking the doors of the building were a passage straight to the outside.
2.4.6 And on seeing them cut off, the Plataians debated whether to burn them where they were, setting fire to the house, or to try something else.
2.4.7 And at least these men and other Thebans wandering about the city were spared; they agreed it was necessary to hand over themselves and their weapons as the Plataians wished.
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Now I'm totally picturing the Thebans being repelled with saucepans.
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EVEN BETTER