During the winter the Syracusans built a wall on to the city, so as to take in the statue of Apollo Temenites, all along the side looking towards Epipolae, to make the task of circumvallation longer and more difficult, in case of their being defeated, and also erected a fort at Megara and another in the Olympieum, and stuck palisades along the sea wherever there was a landing Place.
75. Negu horretan, sirakusarrek horma bat altxatu zuten hiriaren ondoan, Epipolasera ematen duen aldean, Temenites gunea barnean utziz, garaituak baziren ere setiorik ezar ez ziezaieten hiritik hurbil murru batekin.