γῆ θηρίοις μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρώποις σύμμετρος → region more fitting to beasts than men
of bread: use bread.
a thin crust of ice had formed in it (the trench): P. κρύσταλλος ἐπεπήγει οὐ βέβαιος ἐν αὐτῇ (Thuc. 3, 23).