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| 42 | 129 | It was a butchery of men View more quotes about crowded">crowded together, who could scarcely lift their weapons to defend themselves. |
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| 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. |
| 42 | 130 | Three mercenaries had been trapped between the leaves of the great gate. |
| 42 | 131 | One arm was thrust through from the outside. |
| 42 | 132 | There was a scream from the other side as Thrasymedes, with a single blow of his double-edged ax, cut it off. |