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| 41 | 82 | This act, if it was View more quotes about intended">intended to dismay or terrify the citizenry of Mytilene, failed of its purpose, as it produced in most, but not all, a hardening of a general intention to resist. |
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| 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. |
| 41 | 82 | This act, if it was intended to dismay or terrify the citizenry of Mytilene, failed of its purpose, as it produced in most, but not all, a hardening of a general intention to resist. |
| 41 | 83 | Next, the corsairs, as if regretting their grisly act, or perhaps, more likely, as if regretting its unforeseen consequence, its general stiffening of a will to resist amongst the besieged, offered an uncontested exit from the city to adult males. |
| 41 | 84 | Why only adult males? The ulterior motivation of this proposal was presumably to reduce the number of able-bodied defenders within the city. |
| 41 | 85 | Accordingly, dissent abounded. |