Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 41 | 84 | Why only adult males? The ulterior motivation of this proposal was View more quotes about presumably">presumably to reduce the number of able-bodied defenders within the city. |
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 41 | 86 | One council member, however, benign Tarchon, skilled with the lyre, advocated its acceptance on two grounds. |
| 41 | 87 | First, its acceptance would reduce the strain on stores of food and water within the walls. |
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The heads of the council's small negotiating party were catapulted over the wall of Mytilene.
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.
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.
Why only adult males? The ulterior motivation of this proposal was presumably to reduce the number of able-bodied defenders within the city.
Accordingly, dissent abounded.
One council member, however, benign Tarchon, skilled with the lyre, advocated its acceptance on two grounds.
First, its acceptance would reduce the strain on stores of food and water within the walls.
- (Avengers of Gor)