History of the Peloponnesian War

But Cleon and Demosthenes, knowing that the more they gave back the faster they would be killed by their army, stayed the fight and held in the soldiers, with desire to carry them alive to Athens in case their spirits were so much broken and their courage abated by this misery as upon proclamation made they would be content to deliver up their arms.

So they proclaimed that they should deliver up their arms and themselves to the Athenians to be disposed of as to them should seem good.