- 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 · 2026-10-28
The Athenian general Simonides temporarily captures Eion in Thrace through betrayal, but is quickly driven out by the arrival of enemy reinforcements.
κατὰ δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον Σιμωνίδης Ἀθηναίων στρατηγὸς Ἠιόνα τὴν ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης1 Μενδαίων ἀποικίαν, πολεμίαν δὲ οὖσαν, ξυλλέξας Ἀθηναίους τε ὀλίγους ἐκ τῶν φρουρίων καὶ τῶν ἐκείνῃ ξυμμάχων πλῆθος προδιδομένην2 κατέλαβεν. καὶ παραχρῆμα ἐπιβοηθησάντων Χαλκιδέων καὶ Βοττιαίων ἐξεκρούσθη τε καὶ ἀπέβαλε πολλοὺς τῶν στρατιωτῶν.
About the same time, Simonides, an Athenian general, having collected a few Athenians from the garrisons and a large number of the allies in that region, seized Eion in Thrace, a colony of the Mendaeans which was hostile, as it was being betrayed to him. However, upon the Chalcidians and Bottiaeans immediately coming to the rescue, he was driven out and lost many of his soldiers.
- 4.7.1Ἠιόνα τὴν ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης
This Eion refers not to the famous Athenian stronghold at the mouth of the Strymon River, but to another town of the same name, which was a colony of the Mendaeans in the Chalcidice region.
- 4.7.1προδιδομένην
The present passive participle describes a state of betrayal in progress or being attempted. It denotes the circumstance that enabled the sudden seizure of the town.