Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 41 | 76 | Predictably, Mytilene was encouraged to open its gates, with given assurances of lenience and mercy to the population. |
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 41 | 73 | Surviving harbor personnel and the fleeing survivors of the attacked ships were funneled between contingents of the investing forces into Mytilene. |
| 41 | 74 | The purpose of this was to place additional stresses on the supplies and stores of Mytilene. |
| 41 | 75 | Following the entrance of these refugees into the town, the investing lines closed and Mytilene was encircled. |
| 41 | 76 | Predictably, Mytilene was encouraged to open its gates, with given assurances of lenience and mercy to the population. |
| 41 | 77 | This overture was refused by Thrasymedes and his council, apparently on two grounds, first, their terror of the supposed Bosk of Port Kar and their awareness of the merciless depredations inflicted in his name on several villages, such as Nicosia on Chios itself, and, second, the accounts of the harbor refugees of the unconstrained savagery and blood-thirstiness of the pillagers in the harbor. |
| 41 | 78 | On the fourth day of the siege, Thrasymedes and the council attempted to negotiate a withdrawal of the corsairs, offering them fifty stone of gold for their departure and a pledge never to return, and then, later, a hundred stone of gold for their simple departure. |
| 41 | 79 | The corsairs found this offer, generous as it might be, unsatisfactory. |
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Surviving harbor personnel and the fleeing survivors of the attacked ships were funneled between contingents of the investing forces into Mytilene.
The purpose of this was to place additional stresses on the supplies and stores of Mytilene.
Following the entrance of these refugees into the town, the investing lines closed and Mytilene was encircled.
Predictably, Mytilene was encouraged to open its gates, with given assurances of lenience and mercy to the population.
This overture was refused by Thrasymedes and his council, apparently on two grounds, first, their terror of the supposed Bosk of Port Kar and their awareness of the merciless depredations inflicted in his name on several villages, such as Nicosia on Chios itself, and, second, the accounts of the harbor refugees of the unconstrained savagery and blood-thirstiness of the pillagers in the harbor.
On the fourth day of the siege, Thrasymedes and the council attempted to negotiate a withdrawal of the corsairs, offering them fifty stone of gold for their departure and a pledge never to return, and then, later, a hundred stone of gold for their simple departure.
The corsairs found this offer, generous as it might be, unsatisfactory.
- (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 41)