- 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 · 2026-10-24
Phormio and the Athenian forces return to Athens from Acarnania via Naupactus with captured ships and exchanged prisoners, bringing the third year of the war to a close.
οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ ὁ Φορμίων ἄραντες1 ἐκ τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας καὶ ἀφικόμενοι ἐς τὴν Ναύπακτον ἅμα ἦρι κατέπλευσαν ἐς τὰς Ἀθήνας, τούς τε ἐλευθέρους τῶν αἰχμαλώτων ἐκ τῶν ναυμαχιῶν ἄγοντες, οἳ ἀνὴρ ἀντ’ ἀνδρὸς2 ἐλύθησαν, καὶ τὰς ναῦς ἃς εἷλον.
Meanwhile, the Athenians and Phormio, having set out from Acarnania and arrived at Naupactus, sailed back to Athens at the beginning of spring, bringing with them those of the prisoners of war from the naval battles who were of free status and had been ransomed man for man, as well as the ships they had captured.
καὶ ὁ χειμὼν ἐτελεύτα οὗτος, καὶ τρίτον ἔτος τῷ πολέμῳ ἐτελεύτα τῷδε3 ὃν Θουκυδίδης ξυνέγραψεν.
And so ended this winter, and with it ended the third year of this war which Thucydides recorded.
- 2.103.1ἄραντες
Active aorist participle of αἴρω, used here intransitively in a military sense, meaning "to set out" or "to break camp."
- 2.103.1ἀνὴρ ἀντ’ ἀνδρὸς
An idiomatic expression meaning "man for man", indicating that the prisoners were exchanged on an equal, one-for-one basis.
- 2.103.2τῷ πολέμῳ ... τῷδε
The dative τῷ πολέμῳ functions either in apposition with the demonstrative τῷδε ὃν Θουκυδίδης ξυνέγραψεν, or as a dative of reference or relation with the verb ἐτελεύτα.