- 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 · 2026-10-30
In Sicily, a truce between Camarina and Gela leads to a general congress of all Siceliot cities at Gela to negotiate peace, where Hermocrates of Syracuse delivers a speech.
τοῦ δ’ αὐτοῦ θέρους ἐν Σικελίᾳ Καμαριναίοις καὶ Γελῴοις ἐκεχειρία γίγνεται πρῶτον πρὸς ἀλλήλους· εἶτα καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι Σικελιῶται ξυνελθόντες ἐς Γέλαν, ἀπὸ πασῶν τῶν πόλεων πρέσβεις, ἐς λόγους κατέστησαν ἀλλήλοις, εἴ πως ξυναλλαγεῖεν.1 καὶ ἄλλαι τε πολλαὶ γνῶμαι ἐλέγοντο ἐπ’ ἀμφότερα, διαφερομένων καὶ ἀξιούντων,2 ὡς ἕκαστοί τι ἐλασσοῦσθαι3 ἐνόμιζον, καὶ Ἑρμοκράτης ὁ Ἕρμωνος Συρακόσιος, ὅσπερ καὶ ἔπεισε μάλιστα αὐτούς, ἐς τὸ κοινὸν τοιούτους δὴ λόγους εἶπεν.
During the same summer in Sicily, a truce was first made between the Camarinaeans and the Gelaeans. Afterwards, the other Siceliots also, sending envoys from all the cities, assembled at Gela and entered into negotiations with one another, to see if they could somehow come to terms. Many different opinions were expressed on both sides, as they disagreed and made demands according as each party felt they were being disadvantaged; and Hermocrates the son of Hermon, a Syracusan, who was indeed the one who most persuaded them, spoke to the assembly as follows.
- 4.58.1εἴ πως ξυναλλαγεῖεν
The optative with εἴ πως after a past main verb expresses an indirect deliberative question or an expectation ('to see if they could somehow come to terms').
- 4.58.1διαφερομένων καὶ ἀξιούντων
Genitive absolute construction. The logical subject is not explicitly expressed but contextually refers to the envoys of the various cities.
- 4.58.1ἐλασσοῦσθαι
Present passive infinitive of ἐλασσόω, meaning 'to be disadvantaged' or 'to get the worst of it', serving as the complement of ἐνόμιζον ('they thought').