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- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-24
The Athenian expedition to restore the exiled Thessalian prince Orestes at Pharsalus ends in failure. Shortly after, under the command of Pericles, the Athenians defeat the Sicyonians and besiege Oeniadae, but are forced to withdraw without capturing it.
ἐκ δὲ Θεσσαλίας Ὀρέστης ὁ Ἐχεκρατίδου υἱὸς τοῦ Θεσσαλῶν βασιλέως φεύγων ἔπεισεν Ἀθηναίους ἑαυτὸν κατάγειν· καὶ παραλαβόντες Βοιωτοὺς καὶ Φωκέας ὄντας ξυμμάχους οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐστράτευσαν τῆς Θεσσαλίας ἐπὶ Φάρσαλον. καὶ τῆς μὲν γῆς ἐκράτουν ὅσα μὴ1 προϊόντες πολὺ ἐκ τῶν ὅπλων2 (οἱ γὰρ ἱππῆς τῶν Θεσσαλῶν εἶργον), τὴν δὲ πόλιν οὐχ εἷλον, οὐδ’ ἄλλο προυχώρει αὐτοῖς οὐδὲν ὧν ἕνεκα3 ἐστράτευσαν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπεχώρησαν πάλιν Ὀρέστην ἔχοντες ἄπρακτοι.
From Thessaly, Orestes, the son of Echecratides king of the Thessalians, being an exile, persuaded the Athenians to restore him; and the Athenians, taking with them the Boeotians and Phocians, who were their allies, marched against Pharsalus in Thessaly. And they controlled as much of the country as they could without advancing far from their camp (for the Thessalian cavalry kept them in check), but they did not take the city, nor did anything else succeed for them of the objects for which they had marched; instead, they returned home with Orestes, having accomplished nothing.
μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον χίλιοι Ἀθηναίων ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς τὰς ἐν Πηγαῖς ἐπιβάντες (εἶχον δ’ αὐτοὶ τὰς Πηγάς) παρέπλευσαν ἐς Σικυῶνα Περικλέους τοῦ Ξανθίππου στρατηγοῦντος, καὶ ἀποβάντες Σικυωνίων τοὺς προσμείξαντας μάχῃ ἐκράτησαν.
Not long after this, a thousand Athenians, embarking on the ships at Pegae (which they themselves held), sailed along the coast to Sicyon under the command of Pericles son of Xanthippus, and landing, they defeated in battle those of the Sicyonians who came to meet them.
καὶ εὐθὺς παραλαβόντες Ἀχαιοὺς καὶ διαπλεύσαντες πέραν τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας ἐς Οἰνιάδας ἐστράτευσαν καὶ ἐπολιόρκουν, οὐ μέντοι εἷλόν γε, ἀλλ’ ἀπεχώρησαν ἐπ’ οἴκου.
And immediately taking with them some Achaeans, they sailed across to Oeniadae in Acarnania and made an expedition against it and besieged it; they did not, however, capture it, but returned home.
- 1.111.1ὅσα μὴ
A restrictive expression. Combined with the negative particle μή, it introduces a conditional restriction, meaning 'in so far as they did not' or 'unless they went far.'
- 1.111.1τῶν ὅπλων
While τὰ ὅπλα usually means 'weapons' or 'arms', in this military context it refers to the 'camp' or the 'place of arms' where the heavy infantry was stationed.
- 1.111.1ὧν ἕνεκα
The relative pronoun ὧν is attracted from the accusative (which would be the object of ἐστράτευσαν, e.g., ἃ) to the genitive case under the influence of the prepositional adverb ἕνεκα which governs the genitive, while its antecedent (such as τούτων) is omitted.