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| 41 | 192 | "What is your thinking?" View more quotes about asked">asked Thrasymedes. |
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| 41 | 189 | "I do not think the enemy wants a prolonged siege," I said, "one that, as far as it knows, might last months". |
| 41 | 190 | "Presumably not," said Thrasymedes. |
| 41 | 191 | "On the other hand," I said, "I do not think, either, that he is eager to risk ordering paid troops, with no loyalty to anything but loot, to subject themselves to the obvious peril of a general assault on a still stoutly defended town". |
| 41 | 192 | "What is your thinking?" asked Thrasymedes. |
| 41 | 193 | "I think," I said, "he would prefer to pour his troops into Mytilene through an opened gate". |
| 41 | 194 | "The gates are guarded from within," said Thrasymedes. |
| 41 | 195 | "It would require several men to overcome the guards and open a gate". |