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- 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
When the Peloponnesians invade Plataea, Plataean envoys protest by recalling the guarantee of independence and protection granted to them by Pausanias after the Persian War.
τοῦ δ’ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι ἐς μὲν τὴν Ἀττικὴν οὐκ ἐσέβαλον, ἐστράτευσαν δὲ ἐπὶ Πλάταιαν· ἡγεῖτο δὲ Ἀρχίδαμος ὁ Ζευξιδάμου Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεύς. καὶ καθίσας τὸν στρατὸν ἔμελλε δῃώσειν τὴν γῆν· οἱ δὲ Πλαταιῆς εὐθὺς πρέσβεις πέμψαντες πρὸς αὐτὸν ἔλεγον τοιάδε·
During the following summer, the Peloponnesians and their allies did not invade Attica, but made an expedition against Plataea. They were led by Archidamus son of Zeuxidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians. Having encamped his army, he was about to ravage the land; but the Plataeans immediately sent envoys to him and spoke as follows:
‘Ἀρχίδαμε καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, οὐ δίκαια ποιεῖτε οὐδ’ ἄξια οὔτε ὑμῶν οὔτε πατέρων ὧν ἐστέ,1 ἐς γῆν τὴν Πλαταιῶν στρατεύοντες. Παυσανίας γὰρ ὁ Κλεομβρότου Λακεδαιμόνιος ἐλευθερώσας τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἀπὸ τῶν Μήδων μετὰ Ἑλλήνων τῶν ἐθελησάντων ξυνάρασθαι τὸν κίνδυνον τῆς μάχης ἣ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐγένετο, θύσας ἐν τῇ Πλαταιῶν ἀγορᾷ ἱερὰ Διὶ ἐλευθερίῳ καὶ ξυγκαλέσας πάντας τοὺς ξυμμάχους ἀπεδίδου Πλαταιεῦσι γῆν καὶ πόλιν τὴν σφετέραν ἔχοντας αὐτονόμους οἰκεῖν,2 στρατεῦσαί τε μηδένα ποτὲ ἀδίκως3 ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς μηδ’ ἐπὶ δουλείᾳ· εἰ δὲ μή, ἀμύνειν τοὺς παρόντας ξυμμάχους κατὰ δύναμιν.
‘Archidamus and Lacedaemonians, you are acting neither justly nor worthily of yourselves or of the fathers from whom you are descended, in marching against the land of the Plataeans. For Pausanias son of Cleombrotus, the Lacedaemonian, having liberated Greece from the Medes together with those Greeks who were willing to share the danger of the battle that took place among us, offered sacrifice in the marketplace of Plataea to Zeus the Deliverer, and calling together all the allies, granted to the Plataeans that they should inhabit their own land and city as independent self-governing people, and that no one should ever march against them unjustly or for their enslavement; otherwise, the allies present should defend them to the best of their power.
τάδε μὲν ἡμῖν πατέρες οἱ ὑμέτεροι ἔδοσαν ἀρετῆς ἕνεκα καὶ προθυμίας τῆς ἐν ἐκείνοις τοῖς κινδύνοις γενομένης, ὑμεῖς δὲ τἀναντία δρᾶτε· μετὰ γὰρ Θηβαίων τῶν ἡμῖν ἐχθίστων ἐπὶ δουλείᾳ τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ ἥκετε.
These privileges your fathers gave to us on account of the valor and zeal we displayed in those dangers; but you are doing the very opposite. For you have come with the Thebans, our bitterest enemies, for our enslavement.
μάρτυρας δὲ θεοὺς τούς τε ὁρκίους τότε γενομένους ποιούμενοι καὶ τοὺς ὑμετέρους πατρῴους καὶ ἡμετέρους ἐγχωρίους, λέγομεν ὑμῖν γῆν τὴν Πλαταιίδα μὴ ἀδικεῖν μηδὲ παραβαίνειν τοὺς ὅρκους, ἐᾶν δὲ οἰκεῖν αὐτονόμους καθάπερ Παυσανίας ἐδικαίωσεν.’
Therefore, making witnesses of both the gods who attested the oaths then sworn, and your ancestral gods, and our local gods, we tell you not to wrong the land of Plataea, nor to violate your oaths, but to suffer us to live independent, just as Pausanias decreed.’
- 2.71.2ὧν ἐστέ
The relative pronoun ὧν is attracted into the genitive case by its antecedent πατέρων. It expresses origin (from whom you are descended), where one might expect ἐξ ὧν or simply ὧν as a genitive of origin.
- 2.71.2ἔχοντας αὐτονόμους οἰκεῖν
The accusative participle ἔχοντας (and the adjective αὐτονόμους), which refers to the dative Πλαταιεῦσι, is drawn into the accusative as the subject of the infinitive οἰκεῖν, a common construction with infinitives of result or command.
- 2.71.2στρατεῦσαί τε μηδένα ποτὲ ἀδίκως
The infinitives στρατεῦσαι and the subsequent ἀμύνειν depend on the main verb ἀπεδίδου, expressing the terms of the grant or agreement in indirect discourse.