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	Nicias - The Slave of Fear
		As everyone was watching the sea fight (which turned out to be a minor victory for the Athenians), Gylippus and a picked force sneaked up and captured the fort of the Plemmyrium [which commanded the entrance to the harbor], where the Athenians had stored all of their money and the equipment for their ships.
		Nicias argued that Syracuse would soon give in because the Syracusans would be deserted by their allies and the food and water in the city would run out.
		Nicias asked for terms of surrender from Gylippus, and offered total indemnity for all of the damage caused by the war.
	www.e-classics.com /nicias.htm (4564 words)

	GYLIPPUS - LoveToKnow Article on GYLIPPUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His mother was probably a helot, for Gylippus is said to have been, like Lysander and Callicratidas, a inot/iax (see HELOT).
		When Alcibiades urged the Spartans to send a general to lead the Syracusan resistance against the Athenian expedition, Gylippus was appointed, and his arrival was undoubtedly the turning point of thestruggle(4144f3).
		Though at first hislong hair, his threadbare cloak and his staff furnished the subject of many a jest, and his harsh and overbearing manner caused grave discontent, yet the rapidity and decisiveness of his movements, won the sympathy and respect of the Syracusans.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GY/GYLIPPUS.htm (212 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		Gylippus, meanwhile, went on with the wall across Epipolae, using the stones which the Athenians had laid down for their own wall, and at the same time constantly led out the Syracusans and their allies, and formed them in order of battle in front of the lines, the Athenians forming against him.
		Gylippus led out his heavy infantry further from the fortifications than on the former occasion, and so joined battle; posting his horse and darters upon the flank of the Athenians in the open space, where the works of the two walls terminated.
		Gylippus seeing the enemy's fleet defeated and carried ashore beyond their stockades and camp, ran down to the breakwater with some of his troops, in order to cut off the men as they landed and make it easier for the Syracusans to tow off the vessels by the shore being friendly ground.
	classics.mit.edu /Thucydides/pelopwar.7.seventh.html (6684 words)

	Sicilian Expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soon after this, Gylippus landed at Himera, and with 700 marines, 100 hoplites, 100 cavalry, and 1000 Sicilians marched towards Syracuse.
		Gylippus commanded a simultaneous attack on the Athenian land forces.
		Gylippus used this delay to build the roadblocks that did not yet exist, and the Syracusans burned or towed away the Athenian ships on the beach, so that they had no way off the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sicilian_Expedition (3047 words)

	Gylippus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gylippus was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC; he was the son of Cleandridas, who had been expelled from Sparta for accepting Athenian bribes in 446 BC and had settled at Thurii.
		When Alcibiades urged the Spartans to send a general to lead the Syracusan resistance against the Athenian expedition, Gylippus was appointed (414 BC), and his arrival was a turning point of the struggle.
		Gylippus, like his father, met his downfall in a financial scandal; entrusted by Lysander with an immense sum which he was to deliver to the ephors at Sparta, he could not resist the temptation to enrich himself and, on discovery, went into exile, having been condemned to death in his absence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gylippus (211 words)

	THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR - THUCYDIDES - FULL TEXT - BOOK SEVEN - THE ATHENAEUM LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY - Book ...
		While they were resting, Gylippus and the Syracusans sent a part of their army to throw up works in their rear on the way by which they had advanced; however, the Athenians immediately sent some of their men and prevented them; after which they retreated more towards the plain and halted for the night.
		The division of Nicias was five or six miles on in front, as he led them more rapidly, thinking that under the circumstances their safety lay not in staying and fighting, unless obliged, but in retreating as fast as possible, and only fighting when forced to do so.
		Gylippus, after this, immediately gave orders to make prisoners; upon which the rest were brought together alive, except a large number secreted by the soldiery, and a party was sent in pursuit of the three hundred who had got through the guard during the night, and who were now taken with the rest.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /thucydides07.htm (10635 words)

	A Smaller History of Greece - Chapter XII
		It was in this state of affairs that the Spartan commander, Gylippus, passed over into Italy with a little squadron of four ships, with the view merely of preserving the Greek cities in that country, supposing that Syracuse, and, with her, the other Greek cities in Sicily, were irretrievably lost.
		Gylippus was also reinforced by the arrival of thirty triremes from Corinth, Leucas, and Ambracia.
		The numerous bodies of those who died were left to putrify where they had fallen, till at length the place became such an intolerable centre of stench and infection that, at the end of seventy days, the Syracusans, for their own comfort and safety, were obliged to remove the survivors, who were sold as slaves.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/european/ASmallerHistoryofGreece/chap12.html (4287 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 318 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He induced them to adopt the resolution of attacking a particular position, secretly sent word to the enemy, who, in consequence, strengthened their force there, and then availed himself of the indignation at the betrayal of their counsels to prevail upon the people to leave the sole control of them to him.
		Gylippus appears to have at once gone into exile, and to have been condemned to death in his absence.
		This can hardly have been the case with Gylippus himself,-as we find his father, Cleandridas, in an important situa tion at the side of king Pleistoanax: but the family may have been derived, at one point or another* from a Mothax.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1426.html (1035 words)

	Gylippus
		Gylippus (Γυλιππος) was the son of a man named Cleandridas, a Spartiate, one of Sparta's elite warriors.
		Gylippus and Hermocrates tried to prevent the execution of the Athenian generals: Hermocrates because he thought that it was decent to treat those who had been defeated with compassion, Gylippus because he wanted to bring them to Sparta.
		Gylippus' ulitmate fate is not recorded: the author Athenaeus records a tradition that he committed suicide, the historian Diodorus of Sicily says that after the battle of Aigospotamoi, Gylippus was sentenced to death and fled away from Sparta.
	www.livius.org /gs-gz/gylippus/gylippus.html (939 words)

	Genus Gylippus
		Gylippus ferganensis Birula 1893, immature (photo by Alexander V. Gromov).
		The genus Gylippus Simon 1879, whose members are distributed through the Middle East and central Asia, is divided into four subgenera and contains 18 species.
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	www.solpugid.com /gylippus.htm (141 words)

	Early Amphibious Warfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the direction of Gylippus, the Syracusans began a third counterwall, to run generally west from the city, cut across the Epipolae, and preclude the Athenian attempt to reach the sea and isolate the city.
		Gylippus attacked the Athenians in the narrow space between their respective walls; lacking maneuver room for his cavalry, he was beaten by Nicias.
		In the next battle, Nicias attacked Gylippus, but was in turn beaten when Gylippus used his cavalry on an exposed flank, and sent the Athenians back behind their own wall.
	www.exwar.org /Htm/8000PopA2.htm (1323 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1187 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It fortunately happened at this juncture that Nicias, who was afflicted with a painful disorder of the eyes, was left upon Epipolae, and his presence prevented the Syracusans from succeeding in a bold attempt which they made to gain possession of the heights and destroy the Athenian works.
		He seems now to have supposed that he should be unable to stop the erection of a counter-wall on Epipolae, and therefore abandoned the heights and established his army on the headland of Plemmy-rium, where he erected three forts.
		Gylippus was desirous of carrying Nicias to Sparta ; but those of the Syracusans with whom Nicias had opened a secret correspondence, fearing lest its betrayal should bring them into difficulties, eagerly urged that he should be put to death.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2295.html (1015 words)

	EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Rise Of The Snakemen [Forgotten Realms] (Updated - 22nd September) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gylippus and Noob meanwhile were fighting a guerilla style battle away from the others, having drawn off one Dracotaur from the pack, harrying the creature with arrows, making use of some trees to keep it from charging them.
		Gylippus, found is way to Oleg's Weaponforge and after some inquiry, handed over the gold to have his rapier enhanced with magic, the half-orc smith getting right to work on it, letting him know that it would be ready to collect in a couple days time, he not getting much in the way of business.
		Gylippus decided that was their best bet to finding wherever it was that the Yuan-ti were lairing and the group made its way around the the back doors to the room.
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	The Peloponnesian War -- Chapter 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Of the Rhodians and Cytherians, both Dorians, the latter, Lacedæmonian colonists, fought in the Athenian ranks against their Lacedæmonian countrymen with Gylippus; while the Rhodians, Argives by race, were compelled to bear arms against the Dorian Syracusans and their own colonists, the Geloans, serving with the Syracusans.
		The rest of their Athenian and allied captives were deposited in the quarries, this seeming the safest way of keeping them; but Nicias and Demosthenes were butchered, against the will of Gylippus, who thought that it would be the crown of his triumph if he could take the enemy's generals to Lacedæmon.
		This or the like was the cause of the death of a man who, of all the Hellenes in my time, least deserved such a fate, seeing that the whole course of his life had been regulated with strict attention to virtue.
	www.litrix.com /pelop/pelop023.htm (4953 words)

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		Gylippus especially concentrated on the legions controlled by Demosthenes, hoping to separate them from the larger body of the army and thus add to the confusion.
		Gylippus, because he had watched the Athenians press forward toward Catana without turning or trying to take an easier path, did not expect his enemies to change directions, and had posted no guard around their camp.
		For Gylippus had sent ahead a portion of his cavalry to ford the river and throw their javelins at the Athenians as they attempted to cross.
	www.skidmore.edu /classics/courses/2002fall/cc226/a-piercy.doc (3251 words)

	The Peloponnesian War -- Chapter 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Meanwhile Gylippus, after taking Ietæ, a fort of the Sicels, on his way, formed his army in order of battle, and so arrived at Epipolæ, and ascending by Euryelus, as the Athenians had done at first, now advanced with the Syracusans against the Athenian lines.
		Gylippus, meanwhile, went on with the wall across Epipolæ, using the stones which the Athenians had laid down for their own wall, and at the same time constantly led out the Syracusans and their allies, and formed them in order of battle in front of the lines, the Athenians forming against him.
		Demosthenes was instructed first to sail round with Charicles and to operate with him upon the coasts of Laconia, and accordingly sailed to Ægina and there waited for the remainder of his armament, and for Charicles to fetch the Argive troops.
	www.litrix.com /pelop/pelop021.htm (5079 words)

	THUCYDIDES BOOK VII, JOWETT TRANSLATION
		Gylippus then assembled his army and confessed that the fault was his own and not theirs; for by confining their ranks too much between the walls he had rendered useless both their cavalry and their javelin-men.
		Gylippus before engaging led his heavy-armed further outside the walls than on the former occasion; his cavalry and javelin-men he placed on the flanks of the Athenians in the open space between the points at which their respective lines of walls stopped.
		While they were resting, Gylippus and the Syracusans despatched a division of their army to raise a wall behind them across the road by which they had come; but the Athenians sent some of their own troops and frustrated their intention.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/thucydides/jthucbk7rv2.htm (19099 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Nicias by Plutarch
		And in fact Gylippus, who was on his way with a squadron to their aid from Lacedaemon, hearing on his voyage of the wall surrounding them, and of their distress, only continued his enterprise thenceforth, that, giving Sicily up for lost, he might, if even that should be possible, secure the Italians their cities.
		And Gylippus and his friends seeing the Syracusans engaged in their sacrifices and at their cups, for their victories, and it being also a holiday, did not expect either by persuasion or by force to rouse them up and carry them against the Athenians as they decamped.
		When Gylippus, also, demanded the Athenian generals to be delivered to him, that he might carry them to the Lacedaemonians, the Syracusans, now insolent with their good-fortune, gave him ill words.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/nicias.html (6837 words)

	Syracuse Expedition: 415-413 BC
		The Spartan general Gylippus was appointed to command the Syracusan army.
		Gylippus led an attack against the Athenian Calvary and the Athenians suffered their first defeat.
		Then, in a joint land and sea battle near Syracuse on September 9, the Athenians were severely defeated by Gylippus.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/Mediterranean/Syracuse.html (540 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 316 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		GYLIPPUS (rrfTuTTTros), son of Cleandridas, was left, it would seem, when his father went into exile (b.
		In the I8th year of the Peloponnesian war, when the Lacedaemonian government resolved to follow the advice of Alcibiades, and send a Spartan commander to Syracuse, Gylippus was selected for the duty.
		With no hope for their original object, but wishing, at any rate, to save the Italian allies, he and Pythen resolved, without waiting for the further reinforcements, to cross at once.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1424.html (817 words)

	Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But as the Athenians transferred their warlike efforts from the land to the sea, Gylippus sent for a fleet and army from Lacedaemon; upon intelligence of which the Athenians themselves, too, sent out Demosthenes and Eurymedon, in the room of their late leader, with a reinforcement to their troops.
		The Peloponnesians again, by a general resolution of their cities, sent powerful assistance to the Syracusans, and, as if the Greek war had been transported into Sicily, the contest was pursued on both sides with the utmost vigour.
		Gylippus seized a hundred and thirty ships which they had left, and then, pursuing them as they fled, took some of them prisoners, and put others to death.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/justin/english/trans4.html (1445 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Plutarch's Lives, Vol III. by Aubrey Stewart & George Long.
		He informed them that Gylippus would soon come to their aid by land, and that other triremes besides his own were on their way by sea.
		When the Syracusans told Nikias of this disaster, and allowed him to send horsemen to convince him of its truth, he proposed terms to Gylippus, which were that the Athenians should be allowed to leave Sicily, on condition of the repayment of the whole expenses of the war, for which he offered to give hostages.
		Gylippus too, when he begged that he might carry the Athenian generals alive to Sparta, was shamefully insulted by the excited Syracusans, who had long disliked the irritating Spartan airs of superiority natural to Gylippus, and now, flushed with victory, no longer cared to conceal their feelings.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm (12203 words)

	Gylippus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Spartan general who in 414–413, during the Peloponnesian War, broke the Athenian siege of Syracuse, Sicily.
		Urged by the Athenian exile Alcibiades to send a general to take charge of the defense of Syracuse, the Spartans appointed Gylippus, and his arrival in 414 kept Syracuse from surrendering.
		Gylippus broke the Athenian blockade by land, organized resistance from...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038640 (234 words)

	Disaster in Sicily
		Gylippus and the Syracusans and their allies made proclamation, offering their liberty to any of the islanders who chose to come over to them; and some few cities went over.
		Afterwards a capitulation was agreed upon for all the rest with Demosthenes, to lay down their arms on condition that no one was to be put to death either by violence, imprisonment or want of the necessaries of life.
		Gylippus, after this, immediately gave orders to take prisoners; upon which the rest were brought together alive, except a large number secreted by the soldiery, and a party was sent in pursuit of the three hundred who had got through the guard during the night, and who were now taken with the rest.
	courses.missouristate.edu /edc113f/SicilianDisaster.html (2866 words)

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