- Source
- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
- Translation
- AI-generated (gemini-3.5-flash) — machine translation; may contain errors
- Languages
- 日本語 · English · 简体中文 · 한국어
- CTS URN
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:5.25.1-5.25.3
- Generated
- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-02
After the ten years' war, a treaty and alliance are concluded, but an unstable peace persists due to discontent among Peloponnesian states and Athenian suspicion toward Lacedaemon, eventually leading back to open war.
μετὰ δὲ τὰς σπονδὰς καὶ τὴν ξυμμαχίαν τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων καὶ τῶν Ἀθηναίων, αἳ ἐγένοντο1 μετὰ τὸν δεκέτη πόλεμον ἐπὶ Πλειστόλα μὲν ἐν Λακεδαίμονι ἐφόρου, Ἀλκαίου δ’ ἄρχοντος Ἀθήνησι, τοῖς μὲν δεξαμένοις αὐτὰς εἰρήνη ἦν, οἱ δὲ Κορίνθιοι καὶ τῶν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ πόλεών τινες διεκίνουν τὰ πεπραγμένα, καὶ εὐθὺς ἄλλη ταραχὴ καθίστατο τῶν ξυμμάχων πρὸς τὴν Λακεδαίμονα.
After the treaty and the alliance between the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians, which were concluded after the ten years’ war, when Pleistolas was ephor at Lacedaemon and Alcaeus archon at Athens, there was peace for those who had accepted them; but the Corinthians and some of the Peloponnesian cities tried to disturb the settlement, and immediately another disturbance arose among the allies against Lacedaemon.
καὶ ἅμα καὶ τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι προϊόντος τοῦ χρόνου ὕποπτοι ἐγένοντο ἔστιν ἐν οἷς2 οὐ ποιοῦντες ἐκ τῶν ξυγκειμένων ἃ εἴρητο.
At the same time, as time went on, the Lacedaemonians also became suspected by the Athenians, because in some respects they did not perform what had been agreed upon in the treaty.
καὶ ἐπὶ ἓξ ἔτη μὲν καὶ δέκα μῆνας ἀπέσχοντο μὴ ἐπὶ τὴν ἑκατέρων γῆν στρατεῦσαι,3 ἔξωθεν δὲ μετ’ ἀνοκωχῆς οὐ βεβαίου ἔβλαπτον ἀλλήλους τὰ μάλιστα· ἔπειτα μέντοι καὶ ἀναγκασθέντες λῦσαι τὰς μετὰ τὰ δέκα ἔτη σπονδὰς αὖθις ἐς πόλεμον φανερὸν κατέστησαν.
And for six years and ten months they abstained from invading each other’s territory, but externally, under an unstable truce, they did each other the greatest possible damage; then, however, being forced to break the treaty made after the ten years, they once again entered into open war.
- 5.25.1αἳ ἐγένοντο
The relative pronoun αἳ (feminine plural nominative) refers back to both preceding nouns connected by 'and': τὰς σπονδὰς (feminine plural) and τὴν ξυμμαχίαν (feminine singular). It takes the feminine plural form to represent both antecedents.
- 5.25.2ἔστιν ἐν οἷς
An idiomatic expression combining the impersonal ἔστιν with the relative pronoun (here with the preposition, ἐν οἷς), functioning adverbially to mean 'in some respects' or 'in some cases'.
- 5.25.3ἀπέσχοντο μὴ ... στρατεῦσαι
A construction of redundant negative (or double negative), where the verb of abstaining or preventing (ἀπέχομαι) is followed by an infinitive with μὴ. In translation, the negative is not doubled, and the infinitive is rendered positively ('abstained from invading').