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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 · 2026-10-30
The Athenian generals Hippocrates and Demosthenes plan a simultaneous invasion of Boeotia; Demosthenes arrives at Naupactus and prepares for the expedition by mobilizing Acarnanian and other allied forces.
ἡ μὲν οὖν ἐπιβουλὴ τοιαύτη παρεσκευάζετο, ὁ δὲ Ἱπποκράτης αὐτὸς μὲν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως δύναμιν ἔχων, ὁπότε καιρὸς εἴη, ἔμελλε στρατεύειν ἐς τοὺς Βοιωτούς, τὸν δὲ Δημοσθένη προαπέστειλε ταῖς τεσσαράκοντα ναυσὶν ἐς τὴν Ναύπακτον, ὅπως ἐξ ἐκείνων τῶν χωρίων στρατὸν ξυλλέξας Ἀκαρνάνων τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ξυμμάχων πλέοι ἐπὶ τὰς Σίφας ὡς προδοθησομένας·1 ἡμέρα δ’ αὐτοῖς εἴρητο ᾗ ἔδει ἅμα ταῦτα πράσσειν.
Thus the plot was being prepared in this manner, and Hippocrates himself, having a force from the city, was to march against the Boeotians when the opportunity should arise, while he sent Demosthenes ahead to Naupactus with the forty ships, in order that, having gathered an army of Acarnanians and the other allies from those regions, he might sail against Siphae, which was to be betrayed; and a day had been appointed for them on which they had to execute these things simultaneously.
καὶ ὁ μὲν Δημοσθένης ἀφικόμενος, Οἰνιάδας δὲ2 ὑπό τε Ἀκαρνάνων πάντων κατηναγκασμένους καταλαβὼν3 ἐς τὴν Ἀθηναίων ξυμμαχίαν καὶ αὐτὸς ἀναστήσας τὸ ξυμμαχικὸν τὸ ἐκείνῃ πᾶν, ἐπὶ Σαλύνθιον καὶ Ἀγραίους στρατεύσας πρῶτον καὶ προσποιησάμενος τἆλλα ἡτοιμάζετο ὡς ἐπὶ τὰς Σίφας, ὅταν δέῃ, ἀπαντησόμενος.
And Demosthenes, having arrived and finding the Oeniadae forced by all the Acarnanians into the Athenian alliance, and having himself mobilized all the allied forces in that quarter, marched first against Salynthius and the Agraeans and won them over, and was preparing the other matters so as to meet them at Siphae whenever it should be necessary.
- 4.77.1ὡς προδοθησομένας
The combination of the conjunction ὡς with the future passive participle indicates a subjective intention or expected prospect, meaning 'on the expectation of their being betrayed'.
- 4.77.2Οἰνιάδας δὲ
The particle δὲ is inserted here in contrast to μὲν with the subject Demosthenes (ὁ μὲν Δημοσθένης), which is syntactically irregular; it serves to emphasize his first action upon arrival concerning Oeniadae.
- 4.77.2καταλαβὼν
Participle of the verb καταλαμβάνω ('to find, meet with a situation'), taking an accusative (Οἰνιάδας) and a participle (κατηναγκασμένους) to form a construction of finding a fact: 'finding the Oeniadae to have been forced'.