- Source
- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:5.24.1-5.24.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-02
A list of Lacedaemonian and Athenian envoys who swore to the alliance. With the conclusion of the alliance and the return of the prisoners from Sphacteria, the account of the first ten years of continuous war is concluded.
‘τὸν δὲ ὅρκον ὤμνυον Λακεδαιμονίων1 μὲν οἵδε, Πλειστοάναξ, Ἆγις, Πλειστόλας, Δαμάγητος, Χίονις, Μεταγένης, Ἄκανθος, Δάιθος, Ἰσχαγόρας, Φιλοχαρίδας, Ζευξίδας, Ἄντιππος, Ἀλκινάδας, Τέλλις, Ἐμπεδίας, Μηνᾶς, Λάφιλος, Ἀθηναίων δὲ Λάμπων, Ἰσθμιόνικος, Λάχης, Νικίας, Εὐθύδημος, Προκλῆς, Πυθόδωρος, Ἅγνων, Μυρτίλος, Θρασυκλῆς, Θεαγένης, Ἀριστοκράτης, Ἰώλκιος, Τιμοκράτης, Λέων, Λάμαχος, Δημοσθένης.’
’The oath was sworn by the following: on the side of the Lacedaemonians, Pleistoanax, Agis, Pleistolas, Damagetus, Chionis, Metagenes, Acanthus, Daithus, Ischagoras, Philocharidas, Zeuxidas, Antippus, Alcinadas, Tellis, Empedias, Menas, Laphilus; and on the side of the Athenians, Lampon, Isthmionicus, Laches, Nicias, Euthydemus, Procles, Pythodorus, Hagnon, Myrtilus, Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates, Leon, Lamachus, Demosthenes.’
αὕτη ἡ ξυμμαχία ἐγένετο μετὰ τὰς σπονδὰς οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον,2 καὶ τοὺς ἄνδρας τοὺς ἐκ τῆς νήσου ἀπέδοσαν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις, καὶ τὸ θέρος ἦρχε τοῦ ἑνδεκάτου ἔτους. ταῦτα δὲ τὰ δέκα ἔτη ὁ πρῶτος πόλεμος ξυνεχῶς γενόμενος γέγραπται.3
This alliance was made not long after the treaty, and the Athenians restored to the Lacedaemonians the men from the island, and the summer of the eleventh year began. The history of these ten years, of the first war which went on continuously, has been written.
- 5.24.1Λακεδαιμονίων
Partitive genitive. It means "Of the Lacedaemonians, the following...", modifying the following list of names. The same structure applies to Ἀθηναίων in the second half of the sentence.
- 5.24.2οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον
The dative πολλῷ indicates the degree of difference, modifying the comparative adverb ὕστερον ("later by much, not"), which translates to "not long after".
- 5.24.2ὁ πρῶτος πόλεμος ξυνεχῶς γενόμενος γέγραπται
The nominative ὁ πρῶτος πόλεμος is the subject of the passive verb γέγραπται ("has been written"). The aorist participle phrase ξυνεχῶς γενόμενος ("having occurred continuously") modifies πόλεμος, forming the core meaning: "the first war which went on continuously has been written".