- 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
The Peloponnesians ravage the coastal region of Paralus as far as the silver mines of Laurium, while Pericles maintains his policy of not sending the Athenians out to battle.
οἱ δὲ Πελοποννήσιοι ἐπειδὴ ἔτεμον τὸ πεδίον, παρῆλθον ἐς τὴν Πάραλον γῆν καλουμένην μέχρι Λαυρείου, οὗ τὰ ἀργύρεια μέταλλά ἐστιν Ἀθηναίοις. καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἔτεμον ταύτην ᾗ1 πρὸς Πελοπόννησον ὁρᾷ, ἔπειτα δὲ τὴν πρὸς Εὔβοιάν τε καὶ Ἄνδρον τετραμμένην.
When the Peloponnesians had ravaged the plain, they passed into the coastal region called Paralus as far as Laurium, where the Athenians have their silver mines. And first they ravaged that part of it which looks towards the Peloponnese, and afterwards the part turned towards Euboea and Andros.
Περικλῆς δὲ στρατηγὸς ὢν καὶ τότε περὶ μὲν τοῦ μὴ ἐπεξιέναι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους2 τὴν αὐτὴν γνώμην εἶχεν ὥσπερ καὶ ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ ἐσβολῇ.
Pericles, who was general at that time also, maintained the same opinion as during the former invasion in regard to the Athenians not marching out to battle.
- 2.55.1ᾗ
The dative singular feminine of the relative pronoun, used here adverbially of direction or manner ('where', 'in the direction which'). It limits the preceding ταύτην (the Paralus region), with an ellipsis of a noun like ὁδῷ or χώρᾳ implied.
- 2.55.2τοῦ μὴ ἐπεξιέναι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους
An articular infinitive in the genitive functioning as the object of the preposition περί. It contains the negative particle μή, and τοὺς Ἀθηναίους serves as the subject accusative of the infinitive ἐπεξιέναι ('to go out against the enemy'). The entire phrase translates to 'regarding the Athenians not marching out'.