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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 · 2026-11-02
The Mantineans, fearing the Lacedaemonians, are the first to ally with Argos, prompting other Peloponnesians to also seek an alliance with Argos due to their distrust and anger over the treaty between Athens and Lacedaemon.
Μαντινῆς δ’ αὐτοῖς καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι αὐτῶν πρῶτοι προσεχώρησαν, δεδιότες τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους. τοῖς γὰρ Μαντινεῦσι μέρος τι τῆς Ἀρκαδίας κατέστραπτο ὑπήκοον ἔτι τοῦ πρὸς Ἀθηναίους πολέμου ὄντος, καὶ ἐνόμιζον οὐ περιόψεσθαι σφᾶς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἄρχειν,1 ἐπειδὴ καὶ σχολὴν ἦγον· ὥστε ἄσμενοι πρὸς τοὺς Ἀργείους ἐτράποντο, πόλιν τε μεγάλην νομίζοντες καὶ Λακεδαιμονίοις αἰεὶ διάφορον, δημοκρατουμένην τε ὥσπερ καὶ αὐτοί.
The Mantineans and their allies were the first to join them, out of fear of the Lacedaemonians. For a certain part of Arcadia had been brought into subjection by the Mantineans while the war against the Athenians was still going on, and they thought that the Lacedaemonians would not allow them to keep their rule, now that they were at leisure. Therefore, they gladly turned to the Argives, regarding them as a great city, always at variance with the Lacedaemonians, and democratically governed like themselves.
ἀποστάντων δὲ τῶν Μαντινέων καὶ ἡ ἄλλη Πελοπόννησος ἐς θροῦν καθίστατο ὡς καὶ σφίσι ποιητέον τοῦτο, νομίσαντες πλέον τέ τι εἰδότας2 μεταστῆναι αὐτοὺς καὶ τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἅμα δι’ ὀργῆς ἔχοντες, ἐν ἄλλοις τε καὶ ὅτι ἐν ταῖς σπονδαῖς ταῖς Ἀττικαῖς ἐγέγραπτο εὔορκον εἶναι προσθεῖναι καὶ ἀφελεῖν ὅτι ἂν ἀμφοῖν τοῖν πολέοιν δοκῇ, Λακεδαιμονίοις καὶ Ἀθηναίοις.
When the Mantineans revolted, the rest of the Peloponnese also fell into a state of murmuring that they too must do this, thinking that the Mantineans had changed sides because they knew something more, and at the same time being angry with the Lacedaemonians, among other reasons because it had been written in the Attic treaty that it should be consistent with their oath to add or take away whatever might seem good to both cities, the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians.
τοῦτο γὰρ τὸ γράμμα μάλιστα τὴν Πελοπόννησον διεθορύβει καὶ ἐς ὑποψίαν καθίστη μὴ μετὰ Ἀθηναίων σφᾶς βούλωνται Λακεδαιμόνιοι δουλώσασθαι· δίκαιον γὰρ εἶναι3 πᾶσι τοῖς ξυμμάχοις γεγράφθαι τὴν μετάθεσιν.
For this clause especially disturbed the Peloponnese and brought them into suspicion that the Lacedaemonians, in concert with the Athenians, wished to enslave them; for they thought it was just that any alteration should be written for all the allies.
ὥστε φοβούμενοι οἱ πολλοὶ ὥρμηντο πρὸς τοὺς Ἀργείους καὶ αὐτοὶ ἕκαστοι ξυμμαχίαν ποιεῖσθαι.
So, out of fear, the majority were eager, each for themselves, to make an alliance with the Argives.
- 5.29.1οὐ περιόψεσθαι σφᾶς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἄρχειν
The verb περιοράω (to allow/overlook) usually takes a supplementary participle, but here it is construed with the infinitive ἄρχειν. The reflexive pronoun σφᾶς (referring to the Mantineans) is the subject of ἄρχειν ('that they themselves should rule'), while τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους is the subject of the governing infinitive περιόψεσθαι.
- 5.29.2πλέον τέ τι εἰδότας
The accusative participle εἰδότας modifies αὐτούς (the Mantineans), which is the subject of the infinitive μεταστῆναι, expressing the reason: 'because they knew something more' (than the others).
- 5.29.3δίκαιον γὰρ εἶναι
An infinitive in indirect discourse depending on the thinking implied by νομίσαντες. It represents the impersonal expression δίκαιόν ἐστι ('it is just/right'), with the clause γεγράφθαι τὴν μετάθεσιν ('that the alteration should be written') serving as its subject.