Nicias seeing the army dejected and greatly altered, passed along the ranks and encouraged and comforted them as far as was possible under the circumstances, raising his voice still higher and higher as he went from one company to another in his earnestness, and in his anxiety that the benefit of his words might reach as many as possible:
Agian baretzera joko dute, etsaiek nahiko zorion izan dutelako jada, eta, espedizio hau jainkoren baten etsaigoarekin egin baldin badugu, aski zigor dugu jasoa honezkero.