- 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
Brasidas marches against Acanthos just before the harvest, and the inhabitants, fearing for their crops, agree to admit him alone to speak. Brasidas then stands before the assembly to address them.
ἐν δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ θέρει εὐθὺς ὁ Βρασίδας ἔχων καὶ Χαλκιδέας ἐπὶ Ἄκανθον τὴν Ἀνδρίων ἀποικίαν ὀλίγον πρὸ τρυγήτου ἐστράτευσεν.
During the same summer, Brasidas immediately, accompanied also by the Chalcidians, marched a little before the vintage against Acanthos, the colony of the Andrians.
οἱ δὲ περὶ τοῦ δέχεσθαι αὐτὸν κατ’ ἀλλήλους ἐστασίαζον, οἵ τε μετὰ τῶν Χαλκιδέων ξυνεπάγοντες καὶ ὁ δῆμος. ὅμως δὲ διὰ τοῦ καρποῦ τὸ δέος ἔτι ἔξω ὄντος1 πεισθὲν τὸ πλῆθος ὑπὸ τοῦ Βρασίδου δέξασθαί τε αὐτὸν μόνον καὶ ἀκούσαντας βουλεύσασθαι,2 δέχεται· καὶ καταστὰς ἐπὶ τὸ πλῆθος (ἦν δὲ οὐδὲ ἀδύνατος, ὡς Λακεδαιμόνιος,3 εἰπεῖν) ἔλεγε τοιάδε.
The inhabitants were at variance among themselves concerning his admission, between those who in concert with the Chalcidians were trying to introduce him and the commons. Nevertheless, through fear for their fruit which was still outside, the multitude, being persuaded by Brasidas to admit him alone and, after hearing him, to deliberate, received him; and standing before the multitude (and he was not a bad speaker, for a Lacedaemonian), he spoke as follows.
- 4.84.2διὰ τοῦ καρποῦ τὸ δέος ἔτι ἔξω ὄντος
The participle ἔτι ἔξω ὄντος is not a genitive absolute, but an attributive participle agreeing with τοῦ καρποῦ, which is an objective genitive dependent on τὸ δέος. The whole phrase means 'fear for their crops which were still outside the walls'.
- 4.84.2ἀκούσαντας βουλεύσασθαι
The accusative plural masculine participle ἀκούσαντας agrees 'ad sensum' (according to the sense) with the collective noun τὸ πλῆθος (which is neuter singular but implies the individual citizens), serving as the logical subject of the infinitive βουλεύσασθαι.
- 4.84.2ὡς Λακεδαιμόνιος
The particle ὡς is restrictive, meaning 'for a Lacedaemonian' or 'considering he was a Lacedaemonian'. It refers to the common Greek reputation of Spartans as being laconic and not given to public speaking.