And twice or thrice they beat them off; but afterwards, when the men were assailing them with a great clamour, and the women and slaves were raising a loud shouting and screaming from the houses, and pelting them with stones and tiles, and a violent rain also had come on in the night, they were frightened, and turned and fled through the city, the greater part of them, through the dark and dirt, (for the event happened at the end of the month,) being unacquainted with the ways out, by which they were to save themselves; while they had pursuers who were acquainted with them, τοῦ μὴ εκφέυγειν. Poppo observes that the infinitive does not express a purpose, as it does elsewhere, but a result. Arnold supposes that when thus added to sentences in the genitive case, it denotes properly neither an intended nor an unintended result, but simply a connexion, or belonging to, in the attached idea with respect to that which had preceded it. Having their pursuers well acquainted with the ways, which thing belonged to, or was connected with, their not escaping. to prevent their escaping: so that many were put to death.
