- 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
While the Plataeans return the dead and send an embassy to Athens, the Athenians, unaware of the executions, arrest Boeotians and send a herald to stop any harm to the prisoners; discovering the deaths, Athens subsequently stations a garrison in Plataea and evacuates the non-combatants.
τοῦτο δὲ ποιήσαντες ἔς τε τὰς Ἀθήνας ἄγγελον ἔπεμπον καὶ τοὺς νεκροὺς ὑποσπόνδους ἀπέδοσαν τοῖς Θηβαίοις, τά τε ἐν τῇ πόλει καθίσταντο πρὸς τὰ παρόντα ᾗ ἐδόκει αὐτοῖς.
Having done this, they sent a messenger to Athens and restored the dead to the Thebans under a truce, and they settled the affairs in the city according to the present situation as seemed best to them.
τοῖς δ’ Ἀθηναίοις ἠγγέλθη εὐθὺς τὰ περὶ τῶν Πλαταιῶν γεγενημένα, καὶ Βοιωτῶν1 τε παραχρῆμα ξυνέλαβον ὅσοι ἦσαν ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ καὶ ἐς τὴν Πλάταιαν ἔπεμψαν κήρυκα, κελεύοντες εἰπεῖν μηδὲν νεώτερον ποιεῖν περὶ τῶν ἀνδρῶν οὓς ἔχουσι Θηβαίων, πρὶν ἄν τι καὶ αὐτοὶ βουλεύσωσι περὶ αὐτῶν·
Meanwhile, the news of what had happened at Plataea was immediately brought to the Athenians, and they at once arrested all the Boeotians who were in Attica and sent a herald to Plataea, bidding him tell them to do nothing rash regarding the Theban prisoners they held, until they themselves should also take some counsel concerning them;
οὐ γὰρ ἠγγέλθη αὐτοῖς ὅτι τεθνηκότες εἶεν.2 ἅμα γὰρ τῇ ἐσόδῳ γιγνομένῃ τῶν Θηβαίων ὁ πρῶτος ἄγγελος ἐξῄει, ὁ δὲ δεύτερος ἄρτι νενικημένων τε καὶ ξυνειλημμένων·3 καὶ τῶν ὕστερον οὐδὲν ᾔδεσαν. οὕτω δὴ οὐκ εἰδότες οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐπέστελλον· ὁ δὲ κῆρυξ ἀφικόμενος ηὗρε τοὺς ἄνδρας διεφθαρμένους.4
for they had not been informed that they were already dead. For the first messenger had set out just as the entry of the Thebans was taking place, and the second when they had just been defeated and captured; and of subsequent events they knew nothing. Thus, in their ignorance, the Athenians sent these instructions; but when the herald arrived, he found the men already put to death.
καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι στρατεύσαντες ἐς Πλάταιαν σῖτόν τε ἐσήγαγον καὶ φρουροὺς ἐγκατέλιπον, τῶν τε ἀνθρώπων τοὺς ἀχρειοτάτους ξὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ παισὶν ἐξεκόμισαν.
After this, the Athenians marched to Plataea, brought in food, left a garrison, and evacuated the least useful of the people together with their women and children.
- 2.6.2Βοιωτῶν
A partitive genitive restricted by the following relative clause ὅσοι ἦσαν ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ, meaning "as many of the Boeotians as were in Attica."
- 2.6.3τεθνηκότες εἶεν
The oblique optative in an indirect statement (ὅτι clause). Since the main verb (ἠγγέλθη) is in a past tense, the indicative perfect τεθνήκασι is changed to the optative.
- 2.6.3ἄρτι νενικημένων τε καὶ ξυνειλημμένων
Genitive absolute (participial forms νενικημένων and ξυνειλημμένων). The semantic subject, "the Thebans" (αὐτῶν), is omitted as it is clear from the context.
- 2.6.3τοὺς ἄνδρας διεφθαρμένους
The accusative object of the verb of perception ηὗρε (εὑρίσκω) accompanied by a perfect passive participle functioning as a predicative adjunct.