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- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
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Upon the blockade of Potidaea, Aristeus escapes the Athenian guard to join the Chalcidians, while the Athenian general Phormio ravages Chalcidice and captures several small towns.
Ἀριστεὺς δὲ ἀποτειχισθείσης αὐτῆς1 καὶ ἐλπίδα οὐδεμίαν ἔχων σωτηρίας, ἢν μή τι ἀπὸ Πελοποννήσου ἢ ἄλλο παρὰ λόγον γίγνηται, ξυνεβούλευε μὲν πλὴν πεντακοσίων ἄνεμον τηρήσασι2 τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐκπλεῦσαι, ὅπως ἐπὶ πλέον ὁ σῖτος ἀντίσχῃ, καὶ αὐτὸς ἤθελε τῶν μενόντων εἶναι· ὡς δ’ οὐκ ἔπειθε, βουλόμενος τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις παρασκευάζειν καὶ ὅπως τὰ ἔξωθεν ἕξει ὡς ἄριστα, ἔκπλουν ποιεῖται λαθὼν τὴν φυλακὴν τῶν Ἀθηναίων.
Aristeus, when Potidaea was walled off and he had no hope of safety unless something should come from the Peloponnese or some other unexpected event occur, advised that all the rest, except five hundred, should watch for a wind and sail away, so that the provisions might last longer; and he himself was willing to be one of those who remained. But when he could not persuade them, wishing to arrange the next steps and to ensure that matters outside should be as favorable as possible, he made his escape by sea, eluding the guard of the Athenians.
καὶ παραμένων ἐν Χαλκιδεῦσι τά τε ἄλλα ξυνεπολέμει καὶ Σερμυλιῶν3 λοχήσας πρὸς τῇ πόλει πολλοὺς διέφθειρεν, ἔς τε τὴν Πελοπόννησον ἔπρασσεν ὅπῃ ὠφελία τις γενήσεται. μετὰ δὲ τῆς Ποτειδαίας τὴν ἀποτείχισιν Φορμίων μὲν ἔχων τοὺς ἑξακοσίους καὶ χιλίους τὴν Χαλκιδικὴν καὶ Βοττικὴν ἐδῄου καὶ ἔστιν ἃ4 καὶ πολίσματα εἷλεν.
And remaining among the Chalcidians, he helped them in their other military operations, and having laid an ambush near the city of the Sermylians, he destroyed many of them, and also negotiated with the Peloponnese to see how some assistance might be obtained. After the walling off of Potidaea, Phormio, with his sixteen hundred men, ravaged Chalcidice and Bottica, and captured some of their small towns.
μετὰ δὲ τῆς Ποτειδαίας τὴν ἀποτείχισιν Φορμίων μὲν ἔχων τοὺς ἑξακοσίους καὶ χιλίους τὴν Χαλκιδικὴν καὶ Βοττικὴν ἐδῄου καὶ ἔστιν ἃ καὶ πολίσματα εἷλεν.
After the walling off of Potidaea, Phormio, with his sixteen hundred men, ravaged Chalcidice and Bottica, and captured some of their small towns.
- 1.65.1ἀποτειχισθείσης αὐτῆς
Genitive absolute construction. The feminine pronoun αὐτῆς refers back to "Potidaea" (Ποτείδαια) mentioned in the previous chapter.
- 1.65.1τηρήσασι
Aorist active participle, masculine plural dative, agreeing with τοῖς ἄλλοις ("the others"), which is the subject of the infinitive ἐκπλεῦσαι ("to sail away").
- 1.65.2Σερμυλιῶν
Genitive of the proper noun Σερμύλιοι ("Sermylians"), functioning as a partitive genitive modifying the following πολλούς ("many"), meaning "many of the Sermylians."
- 1.65.2ἔστιν ἃ
A neuter plural accusative form of the idiom ἔστιν οἵ ("some"), functioning as a relative construction meaning "some (small towns)."