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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 · 2026-10-24
Athens sends thirty ships around the Peloponnese under Asopius. After ravaging the Laconian coast, Asopius campaigns against Oeniadae and Leucas, but is killed in action during a retreat at Nericus.
κατὰ δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον τοῦ θέρους τούτου Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ περὶ Πελοπόννησον ναῦς ἀπέστειλαν τριάκοντα καὶ Ἀσώπιον τὸν Φορμίωνος στρατηγόν, κελευσάντων Ἀκαρνάνων1 τῶν Φορμίωνός τινα2 σφίσι πέμψαι ἢ υἱὸν ἢ ξυγγενῆ ἄρχοντα.
During the same summer, the Athenians also sent thirty ships around the Peloponnese under the command of Asopius, the son of Phormio, since the Acarnanians had requested them to send either a son or a relative of Phormio to be their commander.
καὶ παραπλέουσαι αἱ νῆες τῆς Λακωνικῆς τὰ ἐπιθαλάσσια χωρία ἐπόρθησαν.
And these ships, sailing along the coast, ravaged the maritime districts of Laconia.
ἔπειτα τὰς μὲν πλείους ἀποπέμπει τῶν νεῶν πάλιν ἐπ’ οἴκου ὁ Ἀσώπιος, αὐτὸς δ’ ἔχων δώδεκα ἀφικνεῖται ἐς Ναύπακτον, καὶ ὕστερον Ἀκαρνᾶνας ἀναστήσας πανδημεὶ στρατεύει ἐπ᾽ Οἰνιάδας, καὶ ταῖς τε ναυσὶ κατὰ τὸν Ἀχελῷον ἔπλευσε καὶ ὁ κατὰ γῆν στρατὸς ἐδῄου τὴν χώραν.
Thereafter, Asopius sent the greater part of the ships back home, while he himself with twelve ships arrived at Naupactus; and later, having mobilized the Acarnanians with their entire force, he marched against Oeniadae, and sailed with his ships up the Achelous, while the land force ravaged the territory.
ὡς δ’ οὐ προσεχώρουν, τὸν μὲν πεζὸν ἀφίησιν, αὐτὸς δὲ πλεύσας ἐς Λευκάδα καὶ ἀπόβασιν ἐς Νήρικον ποιησάμενος ἀναχωρῶν διαφθείρεται αὐτός τε καὶ τῆς στρατιᾶς τι μέρος ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτόθεν τε ξυμβοηθησάντων καὶ φρουρῶν τινῶν ὀλίγων.
But when they did not surrender, he dismissed the land force, while he himself sailed to Leucas and made a descent upon Nericus; but in retreating, he himself and a part of his army were destroyed by the inhabitants who had rallied to help and by a few guards.
καὶ ὕστερον ὑποσπόνδους3 τοὺς νεκροὺς ἀποπλεύσαντες οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι παρὰ τῶν Λευκαδίων ἐκομίσαντο.
And later, the Athenians, having sailed away, recovered their dead from the Leucadians under a truce.
- 3.7.1κελευσάντων Ἀκαρνάνων
Genitive absolute construction. The aorist active participle indicates the reason prior to the action of the main clause, taking the infinitive πέμψαι as its complement. The indirect reflexive pronoun σφίσι refers to the Acarnanians, the logical subject of the genitive absolute, rather than the Athenians, the subject of the main clause.
- 3.7.1τῶν Φορμίωνός τινα
The article τῶν is a genitive plural referring to 'those belonging to Phormio' (his family or kin), functioning as a partitive genitive with τινα ('someone'). It means 'someone of Phormio's relatives'.
- 3.7.5ὑποσπόνδους
Accusative masculine plural of the adjective ὑπόσπονδος ('under a treaty'), functioning as a predicative adjective modifying τοὺς νεκρούς or adverbially. It forms a formulaic expression in ancient Greek warfare for recovering the dead under a truce.