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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)

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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.
41 80 They reasoned, one supposes, that where there might be a hundred stone of gold there might be more than a hundred stone of gold.
41 81 The heads of the council's small negotiating party were catapulted over the wall 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. They reasoned, one supposes, that where there might be a hundred stone of gold there might be more than a hundred stone of gold. The heads of the council's small negotiating party were catapulted over the wall of Mytilene. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter )