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| 41 | 111 | "Desertions are few, happily," said Thrasymedes, "even before the digging of the View more quotes about double">double ditch". |
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| 41 | 108 | "I think," I said, "it was barged to a living island, then near Sybaris, one I have thought of as the Brigand Island". |
| 41 | 109 | "It would destroy such an island," said Thrasymedes. |
| 41 | 110 | "It may have," I said. |
| 41 | 111 | "Desertions are few, happily," said Thrasymedes, "even before the digging of the double ditch". |
| 41 | 112 | In such cases, an individual would anchor a rope to the ramparts and lower himself over the wall. |
| 41 | 113 | As the town was invested, one supposed that few such attempts at escape had proved successful. |
| 41 | 114 | Indeed, sometimes the individual was killed at the foot of the wall. |