History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Thucydides. The history of the Peloponnesian War, Volume 1-2. Dale, Henry, translator. London: Heinemann and Henry G. Bohn, 1851-1852.
but then the beams that were hung from the merchantmen over the passages between them, with [*]( i. e. heavy weights made something in the form of that fish.) dolphins attached to them, stopped their progress.
Two, however, elated by their victory, came up close to them, and were destroyed, one of them being captured with its crew.