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He had promised to settle thebusiness, one way or the other, within twenty days, and this promise, which had been laughed at as a piece of crazy vanity, was fulfilled tothe letter. The whole merit of the performance, however, belonged toDemosthenes, who had planned the attack on Sphacteria with admirablesagacity, and led the operations from first to last. The surrender of a picked troop of Spartan warriors caused arevolution of feeling throughout Greece. Hitherto it had been assumedas a matter ...of course that no Spartan soldier, in any circumstances, would yield to an enemy; but now more than a hundred Spartans hadpreferred life to honour. It was generally believed that the survivorswere inferior in valour to those who had fallen; and some timeafterwards one of the captives was asked this insulting question byone of the Athenian allies: "Your _brave_ comrades were buried onthe field, I suppose?" The Spartan's answer was couched in a riddle:"It would be a mighty clever spindle, [Footnote: Arrow.
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