- 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 · 2026-10-23
Upon hearing Pericles' advice, the Athenians began the painful process of evacuating the countryside, bringing their families, belongings, and even the woodwork of their houses into the city, while sending their livestock to Euboea and nearby islands.
οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀκούσαντες ἀνεπείθοντό τε καὶ ἐσεκομίζοντο ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν παῖδας καὶ γυναῖκας καὶ τὴν ἄλλην κατασκευὴν ᾗ κατ’ οἶκον ἐχρῶντο, καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν οἰκιῶν καθαιροῦντες1 τὴν ξύλωσιν· πρόβατα δὲ καὶ ὑποζύγια ἐς τὴν Εὔβοιαν διεπέμψαντο καὶ ἐς τὰς νήσους τὰς ἐπικειμένας.
The Athenians, upon hearing this, were persuaded and began to bring in from the country their children, wives, and other household effects which they used at home, even pulling down the woodwork of the houses themselves. Their sheep and beasts of burden they sent across to Euboea and the adjacent islands.
χαλεπῶς δὲ αὐτοῖς διὰ τὸ αἰεὶ εἰωθέναι τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς διαιτᾶσθαι2 ἡ ἀνάστασις ἐγίγνετο.3
This removal was painful for them, because the majority had always been accustomed to live in the country.
- 2.14.1καθαιροῦντες
The present participle καθαιροῦντες expresses an action coordinate with or serving as a means to the main verb ἐσεκομίζοντο, implying they dismantled the woodwork of their houses to bring it into the city.
- 2.14.2διὰ τὸ αἰεὶ εἰωθέναι τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς διαιτᾶσθαι
The preposition διὰ governs the substantivized perfect infinitive τὸ εἰωθέναι (from ἔωθα, meaning 'to be accustomed'). τοὺς πολλοὺς serves as the accusative subject of this infinitive, which in turn takes the complementary infinitive διαιτᾶσθαι ('to live'). The entire phrase functions as a causal clause.
- 2.14.2χαλεπῶς ... ἐγίγνετο
The adverb χαλεπῶς combined with the linking verb ἐγίγνετο, along with the subject ἡ ἀνάστασις and the dative of interest αὐτοῖς, expresses the state: 'the removal was difficult/painful for them.' It is a common idiom where an adverb with εἶναι or γίγνεσθαι acts as a predicate.