39.The whole time of the siege of these men in the island, from the fight of the galleys to the fight in the island, was seventy-two days, of which for twenty days victual was allowed to be carried to them, that is to say, in the time that the ambassadors were away that went about the peace;
in the rest, they were fed by such only as put in thither by stealth;and yet there was both corn and other food left in the island.For their captain Epitadas had distributed it more sparingly than he needed to have done.
So the Athenians and the Peloponnesians departed from Pylus, and went home both of them with their armies.And the promise of Cleon, as senseless as is was, took effect;for within twenty days he brought home the men as he had undertaken.
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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