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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 Athenians conclude a thirty years' treaty with the Lacedaemonians, restoring territories. Later, they intervene in a dispute between Samos and Miletus, establishing a democracy in Samos, which is soon overthrown by Samian exiles with Persian support.
ἀναχωρήσαντες δὲ ἀπ’ Εὐβοίας οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον σπονδὰς ἐποιήσαντο πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους καὶ τοὺς ξυμμάχους τριακοντούτεις, ἀποδόντες1 Νίσαιαν καὶ Πηγὰς καὶ Τροιζῆνα καὶ Ἀχαΐαν· ταῦτα γὰρ εἶχον Ἀθηναῖοι Πελοποννησίων.2
After returning from Euboea, not long afterwards they made a thirty years’ treaty with the Lacedaemonians and their allies, giving up Nisaea, Pegae, Troezen, and Achaea; for these the Athenians had held from the Peloponnesians.
ἕκτῳ δὲ ἔτει Σαμίοις καὶ Μιλησίοις πόλεμος ἐγένετο περὶ Πριήνης, καὶ οἱ Μιλήσιοι ἐλασσούμενοι τῷ πολέμῳ παρ’ Ἀθηναίους ἐλθόντες κατεβόων τῶν Σαμίων. ξυνεπελάβοντο δὲ καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς Σάμου ἄνδρες ἰδιῶται νεωτερίσαι βουλόμενοι τὴν πολιτείαν.
In the sixth year, a war broke out between the Samians and the Milesians over Priene. The Milesians, getting the worst of the war, came to the Athenians and cried out against the Samians. They were joined by certain private individuals from Samos itself, who wished to revolutionize the constitution.
πλεύσαντες οὖν Ἀθηναῖοι ἐς Σάμον ναυσὶ τεσσαράκοντα δημοκρατίαν κατέστησαν, καὶ ὁμήρους ἔλαβον τῶν Σαμίων πεντήκοντα μὲν παῖδας, ἴσους δὲ ἄνδρας, καὶ κατέθεντο ἐς Λῆμνον, καὶ φρουρὰν ἐγκαταλιπόντες ἀνεχώρησαν.
The Athenians therefore sailed to Samos with forty ships and established a democracy; they also took fifty boys and as many men from the Samians as hostages, and deposited them in Lemnos, and after leaving a garrison there, they withdrew.
τῶν δὲ Σαμίων3 ἦσαν γάρ τινες οἳ οὐχ ὑπέμειναν, ἀλλ’ ἔφυγον ἐς τὴν ἤπειρον, ξυνθέμενοι τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει τοῖς δυνατωτάτοις καὶ Πισσούθνῃ τῷ Ὑστάσπου ξυμμαχίαν, ὃς εἶχε Σάρδεις τότε, ἐπικούρους τε ξυλλέξαντες ἐς ἑπτακοσίους διέβησαν ὑπὸ νύκτα ἐς τὴν Σάμον, καὶ πρῶτον μὲν τῷ δήμῳ ἐπανέστησαν καὶ ἐκράτησαν τῶν πλείστων, ἔπειτα τοὺς ὁμήρους ἐκκλέψαντες ἐκ Λήμνου τοὺς αὑτῶν ἀπέστησαν, καὶ τοὺς φρουροὺς τοὺς Ἀθηναίων καὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας οἳ ἦσαν παρὰ σφίσιν ἐξέδοσαν Πισσούθνῃ, ἐπί τε Μίλητον εὐθὺς παρεσκευάζοντο στρατεύειν. ξυναπέστησαν δ’ αὐτοῖς καὶ Βυζάντιοι.
But some of the Samians did not submit, but fled to the mainland; having made an alliance with the most powerful of those left in the city, and with Pissuthnes son of Hystaspes, who then held Sardis, and having collected about seven hundred mercenaries, they crossed over by night to Samos. And first they rose against the commons and secured most of them; then they secretly rescued their hostages from Lemnos and declared their revolt, and delivered up to Pissuthnes the Athenian garrison and the officials who were among them; and they immediately prepared to make an expedition against Miletus. The Byzantines also revolted along with them.
- 1.115.1ἀποδόντες
The aorist participle ἀποδόντες expresses the condition or means under which the main verb ἐποιήσαντο (made a treaty) takes place ('by giving up' or 'on condition of restoring').
- 1.115.1Πελοποννησίων
An ablative genitive of separation, meaning 'from the Peloponnesians' (with εἶχον). Although it could be construed as a possessive genitive ('the property of the Peloponnesians'), the ablative sense indicating the source from which the Athenians had acquired these places is preferred.
- 1.115.4τῶν δὲ Σαμίων
A partitive genitive placed at the beginning of the sentence. While conceptually starting as 'of the Samians, some...', the insertion of the parenthetical γάρ-clause (ἦσαν γάρ τινες οἳ...) shifts the syntax, making the relative pronoun οἳ the functional subject of the subsequent participles like ξυνθέμενοι and the main verb διέβησαν.