70. These then perished thus ingloriously; 1404 and meanwhile the Persians and the rest of the throng, having fled for refuge to the palisade, succeeded in getting up to the towers before the Lacedaemonians came; and having got up they strengthened the wall of defence as best they could. Then when the Lacedaemonians 1405 came up to attack it, there began between them a vigorous 1406