ὧν οὐκ ἐλάσσονες διεπολιόρκησαν

From LSJ

ἀγωνίζεσθαι, ἐπιζητεῖν, εὑρίσκειν καί μή εἴκειν → to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (Tennyson, Ulysses)  

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English > Greek (Woodhouse Quotes Reversed)

an equal number of whom saw the siege out