History of the Peloponnesian War

For as the dead lay unburied, and any one saw a friend on the ground, he was struck at once with grief and fear. And the living who were being left behind, wounded or sick, were to the living a much more sorrowful spectacle than the dead, and more piteous than those who had perished.

For having recourse to entreaties and wailings, they reduced them to utter perplexity, begging to be taken away, and appealing to each individual friend or relative that any of them might any where see; ZZZ hanging on their comrades, as they were now going away; or following as far as they could, and when in any case the strength of their body failed, not being left behind without [*](οὐκ ἄνευ ὀλίγων.] Arnold thinks that the negative must be twice repeated, as if it were οὐκ ἄνευ οὐκ ὀλίγων, just as non modo in Latin is used instead of non modo non. Or, may it be considered as a confusion of two expressions, viz. οὐκ ἄνευ πολλῶν and μετ᾽ οὐκ ὀλίγων?) many appeals to heaven and many lamentations. So that the whole army, being filled with tears and distress of this kind, did not easily get away, although from an enemy's country, and although they had both suffered already miseries too great for tears to express, and were still afraid for the future, lest they might suffer more.