- 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 · 2026-11-03
The Argives accept the Lacedaemonian proposal, renounce their previous alliances, and conclude a new treaty of peace and alliance with Lacedaemon.
τοῦτον μὲν τὸν λόγον προσεδέξαντο πρῶτον οἱ Ἀργεῖοι, καὶ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων τὸ στράτευμα ἀνεχώρησεν ἐκ τῆς Τεγέας ἐπ’ οἴκου· μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο ἐπιμειξίας οὔσης1 ἤδη παρ’ ἀλλήλους, οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον ἔπραξαν αὖθις οἱ αὐτοὶ ἄνδρες ὥστε τὴν Μαντινέων καὶ τὴν Ἀθηναίων καὶ Ἠλείων ξυμμαχίαν ἀφέντας Ἀργείους σπονδὰς καὶ ξυμμαχίαν ποιήσασθαι2 πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους. καὶ ἐγένοντο αἵδε.
The Argives first accepted this proposal, and the army of the Lacedaemonians withdrew from Tegea to go home. After this, when there was already free intercourse between them, not long afterwards the same men managed again to bring it about that the Argives, renouncing their alliance with the Mantineans, Athenians, and Eleans, made a treaty and alliance with the Lacedaemonians. And they were as follows:
- 5.78.1ἐπιμειξίας οὔσης
A genitive absolute construction consisting of the noun ἐπιμειξία (intercourse, communication) and the present participle οὔσης (from εἰμί), describing the attendant circumstance that free communication between the parties had already begun before the formal treaty was concluded.
- 5.78.1ὥστε τὴν Μαντινέων καὶ τὴν Ἀθηναίων καὶ Ἠλείων ξυμμαχίαν ἀφέντας Ἀργείους σπονδὰς καὶ ξυμμαχίαν ποιήσασθαι
The subject of the infinitive ποιήσασθαι is the accusative Ἀργείους, with which the aorist participle ἀφέντας (from ἀφίημι) agrees. Since the subject of the infinitive clause is different from the main subject (οἱ αὐτοὶ ἄνδρες), the accusative is used. The verb ἔπραξαν combined with ὥστε introduces the result or objective: 'they managed/schemed so that the Argives...'.