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| 42 | 126 | "View more quotes about lamps">Lamps!" Even before the lamps were lit, and dangling on their cords, the men of Mytilene, with cries of rage, rushed toward the gate, brandishing their miscellany of weapons, including those taken from the fallen mercenaries slain in our earlier action, stabbing and striking. |
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| 42 | 123 | I then heard the sound of the two heavy gate beams slid through their brackets, one from the right, one from the left. |
| 42 | 124 | "Publius! Publius?" cried a voice. |
| 42 | 125 | "Light!" I called. |
| 42 | 126 | "Lamps!" Even before the lamps were lit, and dangling on their cords, the men of Mytilene, with cries of rage, rushed toward the gate, brandishing their miscellany of weapons, including those taken from the fallen mercenaries slain in our earlier action, stabbing and striking. |
| 42 | 127 | Outside the gate I could hear, too, cries of consternation, as our men on the wall, those above the gate, hurled heavy stones down upon the startled mercenaries, crowded together outside the gate. |
| 42 | 128 | What occurred within the gate was much what had occurred before. |
| 42 | 129 | It was a butchery of men crowded together, who could scarcely lift their weapons to defend themselves. |