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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 · 2026-10-28
A temporary armistice is concluded between Athens and Sparta, involving the delivery of ships and food supply to Sphacteria, and Spartan ambassadors are dispatched to Athens.
δεξαμένων δὲ τῶν στρατηγῶν τὸν λόγον ἐγίγνοντο σπονδαὶ τοιαίδε, Λακεδαιμονίους μὲν τὰς ναῦς ἐν αἷς ἐναυμάχησαν καὶ τὰς ἐν τῇ Λακωνικῇ πάσας, ὅσαι ἦσαν μακραί, παραδοῦναι1 κομίσαντας ἐς Πύλον Ἀθηναίοις, καὶ ὅπλα μὴ ἐπιφέρειν τῷ τειχίσματι μήτε κατὰ γῆν μήτε κατὰ θάλασσαν, Ἀθηναίους δὲ τοῖς ἐν τῇ νήσῳ ἀνδράσι σῖτον ἐᾶν2 τοὺς ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ Λακεδαιμονίους ἐκπέμπειν τακτὸν καὶ μεμαγμένον, δύο χοίνικας ἑκάστῳ Ἀττικὰς ἀλφίτων καὶ δύο κοτύλας οἴνου καὶ κρέας, θεράποντι δὲ τούτων ἡμίσεα· ταῦτα δὲ ὁρώντων τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐσπέμπειν καὶ πλοῖον μηδὲν ἐσπλεῖν λάθρᾳ· φυλάσσειν δὲ καὶ τὴν νῆσον Ἀθηναίους μηδὲν ἧσσον, ὅσα μὴ ἀποβαίνοντας,3 καὶ ὅπλα μὴ ἐπιφέρειν τῷ Πελοποννησίων στρατῷ μήτε κατὰ γῆν μήτε κατὰ θάλασσαν.
When the generals accepted the proposal, an armistice was made on the following terms: that the Lacedaemonians should deliver to the Athenians at Pylos the ships in which they had fought the sea-fight, and all their other ships of war in Laconia, having brought them there; and they should not make any attack upon the fortification either by land or by sea; on the other hand, the Athenians should permit the Lacedaemonians on the mainland to send to the men on the island a fixed ration of kneaded barley-meal, namely, two Attic choenixes of barley-meal for each man, two cotylae of wine, and a portion of meat, and half of these amounts for a servant; these provisions should be sent under the eyes of the Athenians, and no vessel should sail in secretly; the Athenians should guard the island no less than before, so long as they did not land upon it, and should not make any attack upon the Peloponnesian army either by land or by sea.
ὅτι δ’ ἂν τούτων παραβαίνωσιν ἑκάτεροι καὶ ὁτιοῦν, τότε λελύσθαι4 τὰς σπονδάς. ἐσπεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτὰς μέχρι οὗ ἐπανέλθωσιν οἱ ἐκ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν Λακεδαιμονίων πρέσβεις· ἀποστεῖλαι δὲ αὐτοὺς τριήρει Ἀθηναίους καὶ πάλιν κομίσαι. ἐλθόντων δὲ τάς τε σπονδὰς λελύσθαι ταύτας καὶ τὰς ναῦς ἀποδοῦναι Ἀθηναίους ὁμοίας οἵασπερ ἂν παραλάβωσιν.
If either party should violate any of these conditions in any respect, the armistice was to be immediately void. The armistice was to remain in force until the Lacedaemonian ambassadors should return from Athens; and the Athenians were to convey them thither in a trireme and bring them back. And upon their return, this armistice was to end, and the Athenians were to restore the ships in the same condition in which they had received them.
αἱ μὲν σπονδαὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἐγένοντο, καὶ αἱ νῆες παρεδόθησαν οὖσαι περὶ ἑξήκοντα, καὶ οἱ πρέσβεις ἀπεστάλησαν. ἀφικόμενοι δὲ ἐς τὰς Ἀθήνας ἔλεξαν τοιάδε.
The armistice was made on these terms, and the ships, about sixty in number, were delivered, and the ambassadors were sent. On arriving at Athens they spoke as follows:
- 4.16.1παραδοῦναι
The infinitive παραδοῦναι, along with the subsequent infinitives (ἐπιφέρειν, ἐᾶν, ἐσπέμπειν, φυλάσσειν), functions as an 'infinitive of command' (imperative infinitive) typical in the texts of treaties or decrees. They can be understood as depending on an implied main verb like ἔδοξε or reflecting a result/agreement construction.
- 4.16.1ἐᾶν
A complex construction involving double accusative-and-infinitive structures. Ἀθηναίους (explicit in the text) is the subject accusative of ἐᾶν ('to permit'), while τοὺς ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ Λακεδαιμονίους ('the Lacedaemonians on the mainland') is the subject accusative of the dependent infinitive ἐκπέμπειν ('to send out').
- 4.16.1ὅσα μὴ ἀποβαίνοντας
ὅσα is an adverbial accusative of relation (neuter plural of ὅσος) expressing restriction ('as far as', 'provided that'). The participle ἀποβαίνοντας agrees in gender, number, and case (masculine plural accusative) with Ἀθηναίους, the logical subject of the main infinitive clause.
- 4.16.2λελύσθαι
The perfect passive infinitive of λύω ('to loose', 'to void'). The use of the perfect tense in the apodosis of the conditional clause stresses the immediate and definitive nullification (state of being voided) of the treaty the moment any violation occurs.
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-05-25) · Revision history (1, latest 2026-09-21)
- 2026-09-21 AI review — note 1