Meanwhile Nicias, appalled by the position of affairs, realizing the greatness and the nearness of the danger now that they were on the point of putting out from shore, and thinking, as men are apt to think in great crises, that when all has been done they have still something left to do, and when all has been said that they have not yet said enough, again called on the captains one by one, addressing each by his father's name and by his own, and by that of his tribe, and adjured them not to belie their own personal renown, or to obscure the hereditary virtues for which their ancestors were illustrious:
Niziasek, oso kezkatsu zegoenez une hartako egoeraz eta ondo zekusanez arriskuaren tamaina eta hurbiltasuna-orduantxe abiatzeko baitziren ontziak-, egiteko eta esateko zituen gauza guztiak biribildu gabe zeudela uste zuen, horixe gertatzen baita konbate garrantzitsuetan, eta orduan banan-banan deitzen zien ontzietako kapitainei;