- Source
- 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 · 2026-10-27
After being rejected by Corcyra, the Epidamnians consult the Delphic oracle and surrender their city to Corinth, which accepts the alliance due to historic grievances against Corcyra.
γνόντες δὲ οἱ Ἐπιδάμνιοι οὐδεμίαν σφίσιν ἀπὸ Κερκύρας τιμωρίαν οὖσαν ἐν ἀπόρῳ εἴχοντο θέσθαι1 τὸ παρόν, καὶ πέμψαντες ἐς Δελφοὺς τὸν θεὸν ἐπήροντο εἰ παραδοῖεν Κορινθίοις τὴν πόλιν ὡς οἰκισταῖς καὶ τιμωρίαν τινὰ πειρῷντ’ ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν ποιεῖσθαι. ὁ δ’ αὐτοῖς ἀνεῖλε παραδοῦναι καὶ ἡγεμόνας ποιεῖσθαι.
When the Epidamnians recognized that there was no assistance for them from Corcyra, they were at a loss how to settle the present situation, and sending to Delphi, they asked the god whether they should hand over the city to the Corinthians as founders and try to obtain some assistance from them. The god answered them that they should hand it over and make them their leaders.
ἐλθόντες δὲ οἱ Ἐπιδάμνιοι ἐς τὴν Κόρινθον κατὰ τὸ μαντεῖον παρέδοσαν τὴν ἀποικίαν, τόν τε οἰκιστὴν ἀποδεικνύντες σφῶν ἐκ Κορίνθου ὄντα καὶ τὸ χρηστήριον δηλοῦντες, ἐδέοντό τε μὴ σφᾶς περιορᾶν φθειρομένους, ἀλλ’ ἐπαμῦναι.
So the Epidamnians went to Corinth and, according to the oracle, handed over the colony, pointing out that their founder was from Corinth and declaring the oracle; and they begged them not to look on and see them perish, but to aid them.
Κορίνθιοι δὲ κατά τε τὸ δίκαιον ὑπεδέξαντο τὴν τιμωρίαν, νομίζοντες οὐχ ἧσσον ἑαυτῶν εἶναι τὴν ἀποικίαν ἢ Κερκυραίων, ἅμα δὲ καὶ μίσει τῶν Κερκυραίων, ὅτι αὐτῶν παρημέλουν ὄντες ἄποικοι·
The Corinthians undertook their defense both out of justice, thinking that the colony belonged no less to themselves than to the Corcyraeans, and at the same time through hatred of the Corcyraeans, because, although they were their colonists, they neglected them;
οὔτε γὰρ ἐν πανηγύρεσι ταῖς κοιναῖς διδόντες γέρα τὰ νομιζόμενα οὔτε Κορινθίῳ ἀνδρὶ προκαταρχόμενοι τῶν ἱερῶν ὥσπερ αἱ ἄλλαι ἀποικίαι, περιφρονοῦντες δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ χρημάτων δυνάμει ὄντες κατ’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον ὁμοῖα τοῖς Ἑλλήνων πλουσιωτάτοις καὶ τῇ ἐς πόλεμον παρασκευῇ δυνατώτεροι, ναυτικῷ δὲ καὶ πολὺ προύχειν ἔστιν ὅτε ἐπαιρόμενοι καὶ κατὰ τὴν Φαιάκων προενοίκησιν τῆς Κερκύρας κλέος ἐχόντων2 τὰ περὶ τὰς ναῦς (ᾗ καὶ μᾶλλον ἐξηρτύοντο τὸ ναυτικὸν καὶ ἦσαν οὐκ ἀδύνατοι· τριήρεις γὰρ εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατὸν ὑπῆρχον αὐτοῖς ὅτε ἤρχοντο πολεμεῖν),
for they neither gave them the customary privileges at the common festivals, nor, in the sacrifices, did they allow a Corinthian to perform the initial rites, as the other colonies did, but they looked down on them, being at that time, in terms of the power of wealth, equal to the richest of the Greeks, and in military preparation more powerful, and sometimes boasting that they were far superior in their navy because of the prior settlement in Corcyra of the Phaeacians, who had a great reputation in naval affairs (for which reason also they developed their navy even more and were not powerless; for they had one hundred and twenty triremes when they began to make war),
- 1.25.1ἐν ἀπόρῳ εἴχοντο θέσθαι
The middle infinitive θέσθαι means "to settle or arrange for themselves". The verb εἴχοντο is a passive expression of ἔχω, showing that they were held fast in a difficult state, with the infinitive completing or limiting the expression.
- 1.25.4κλέος ἐχόντων
A genitive absolute construction with Φαιάκων as the logical subject. The genitive Φαιάκων modifies προενοίκησιν under the preposition κατά, and at the same time functions as the subject for the participle ἐχόντων.