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- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
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Corinth gladly sends aid and guard forces to Epidamnus, which angers Corcyra, leading them to ally with the exiles and the Illyrians and lay siege to Epidamnus.
πάντων οὖν τούτων ἐγκλήματα ἔχοντες1 οἱ Κορίνθιοι ἔπεμπον ἐς τὴν Ἐπίδαμνον ἄσμενοι τὴν ὠφελίαν, οἰκήτορά τε τὸν βουλόμενον ἰέναι κελεύοντες2 καὶ Ἀμπρακιωτῶν καὶ Λευκαδίων καὶ ἑαυτῶν φρουρούς.
The Corinthians, having all these grounds of complaint, gladly sent aid to Epidamnus, directing anyone who wished to go as a colonist, and sending guards from the Ambraciots, the Leucadians, and themselves.
ἐπορεύθησαν δὲ πεζῇ ἐς Ἀπολλωνίαν, Κορινθίων οὖσαν ἀποικίαν, δέει τῶν Κερκυραίων μὴ κωλύωνται3 ὑπ’ αὐτῶν κατὰ θάλασσαν περαιούμενοι.
They went by land to Apollonia, a colony of the Corinthians, for fear that they might be prevented by the Corcyraeans if they crossed by sea.
Κερκυραῖοι δὲ ἐπειδὴ ᾔσθοντο τούς τε οἰκήτορας καὶ φρουροὺς ἥκοντας ἐς τὴν Ἐπίδαμνον τήν τε ἀποικίαν Κορινθίοις δεδομένην, ἐχαλέπαινον· καὶ πλεύσαντες εὐθὺς πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι ναυσὶ καὶ ὕστερον ἑτέρῳ στόλῳ τούς τε φεύγοντας ἐκέλευον κατ’ ἐπήρειαν4 δέχεσθαι αὐτούς (ἦλθον γὰρ ἐς τὴν Κέρκυραν οἱ τῶν Ἐπιδαμνίων φυγάδες, τάφους τε ἀποδεικνύντες καὶ ξυγγένειαν, ἣν προϊσχόμενοι ἐδέοντο σφᾶς κατάγειν) τούς τε φρουροὺς οὓς Κορίνθιοι ἔπεμψαν καὶ τοὺς οἰκήτορας ἀποπέμπειν.
But when the Corcyraeans heard that the colonists and the guards had arrived at Epidamnus, and that the colony had been given to the Corinthians, they were angry; and sailing immediately with twenty-five ships, and afterwards with another fleet, they insultingly ordered them to receive their exiles (for the exiles of the Epidamnians had come to Corcyra, pointing out graves and their kinship, which they pleaded in begging them to restore them) and to send away the guards whom the Corinthians had sent and the colonists.
οἱ δὲ Ἐπιδάμνιοι οὐδὲν αὐτῶν ὑπήκουσαν, ἀλλὰ στρατεύουσιν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς οἱ Κερκυραῖοι τεσσαράκοντα ναυσὶ μετὰ τῶν φυγάδων ὡς κατάξοντες, καὶ τοὺς Ἰλλυριοὺς προσλαβόντες.
But the Epidamnians did not listen to them at all; whereupon the Corcyraeans marched against them with forty ships, taking the exiles with them to restore them, and having also secured the alliance of the Illyrians.
προσκαθεζόμενοι δὲ τὴν πόλιν προεῖπον Ἐπιδαμνίων τε τὸν βουλόμενον καὶ τοὺς ξένους ἀπαθεῖς ἀπιέναι· εἰ δὲ μή, ὡς πολεμίοις χρήσεσθαι.5 ὡς δ’ οὐκ ἐπείθοντο, οἱ μὲν Κερκυραῖοι (ἔστι δ’ ἰσθμὸς τὸ χωρίον) ἐπολιόρκουν τὴν πόλιν,
And sitting down before the city, they proclaimed that any of the Epidamnians who wished, and the foreigners, might depart unharmed; otherwise they would treat them as enemies. But when they would not obey, the Corcyraeans (the place being an isthmus) besieged the city.
- 1.26.1πάντων οὖν τούτων ἐγκλήματα ἔχοντες
τούτων is an objective genitive dependent on the noun ἐγκλήματα ("complaints about all these things"). ἔχοντες is a causal participle, meaning "since they had all these grounds of complaint."
- 1.26.1οἰκήτορά τε τὸν βουλόμενον ἰέναι κελεύοντες
οἰκήτορα is the subject accusative of the infinitive ἰέναι and also the object of the participle κελεύοντες. τὸν βουλόμενον is a substantival participle modifying οἰκήτορα, meaning "directing anyone who wished to go [as a colonist]."
- 1.26.2δέει τῶν Κερκυραίων μὴ κωλύωνται
δέει is a dative of cause ("through fear"). The following clause μὴ κωλύωνται is a fear clause dependent on the noun δέει ("for fear that they might be prevented"). The present subjunctive κωλύωνται is retained from the original thought for vividness, despite following a historical main verb (ἐπορεύθησαν).
- 1.26.3κατ’ ἐπήρειαν
The preposition κατὰ with the accusative of ἐπήρεια (spiteful treatment, insult) forms an adverbial phrase meaning "out of spite" or "insultingly."
- 1.26.5εἰ δὲ μή, ὡς πολεμίοις χρήσεσθαι
Following εἰ δὲ μή ("otherwise"), the future infinitive χρήσεσθαι is used in indirect discourse dependent on the main verb προεῖπον ("proclaimed"). The subject of the infinitive (the Corcyraeans) is omitted.