History of the Peloponnesian War

and those of the survivors who had not been secretly appropriated by the Syracusan soldiers—and these were many— were brought in a body to Syracuse alive. They also sent men in pursuit of the three hundred, who had got through the guards the night before, and captured them.

Now that part of the army which was collected into the common stock was not large,[*](Not more than 1000; for the total number of the captives was about 7000 (7.87.4), and of these 6000 had belonged to the division of Demosthenes (7.82.3). But the full magnitude of the catastrophe is seen in the fact that eight days before the final surrender the Athenian army numbered 40,000.) but that which was secretly taken by the soldiers was large, and all Sicily was filled with them, inasmuch as they had not been taken by capitulation, as had the force under Demosthenes.