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- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
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After concluding their alliance, Sparta and Argos decided to break ties with Athens and act in unison, while forming alliances with neighboring powers. Regarding the fort at Epidaurus, the Athenians evacuated their garrison through a stratagem and restored the fort.
αἱ μὲν σπονδαὶ καὶ ἡ ξυμμαχία αὕτη ἐγεγένητο· καὶ ὁπόσα ἀλλήλων πολέμῳ ἢ εἴ τι ἄλλο εἶχον, διελύσαντο. κοινῇ δὲ ἤδη τὰ πράγματα τιθέμενοι ἐψηφίσαντο κήρυκα καὶ πρεσβείαν παρ’ Ἀθηναίων μὴ προσδέχεσθαι, ἢν μὴ ἐκ Πελοποννήσου ἐξίωσι τὰ τείχη ἐκλιπόντες, καὶ μὴ ξυμβαίνειν τῳ μηδὲ πολεμεῖν ἀλλ’ ἢ ἅμα.1
Thus the treaty and the alliance were concluded; and they settled all the disputes regarding what they had taken from one another in war, or whatever else they held. Now managing their affairs in common, they voted not to receive any herald or embassy from the Athenians, unless they should evacuate the forts and withdraw from the Peloponnese, and not to make peace or war with anyone except in common.
καὶ τά τε ἄλλα θυμῷ ἔφερον καὶ ἐς τὰ ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης χωρία καὶ ὡς Περδίκκαν ἔπεμψαν ἀμφότεροι πρέσβεις, καὶ ἀνέπεισαν Περδίκκαν ξυνομόσαι σφίσιν. οὐ μέντοι εὐθύς γε ἀπέστη τῶν Ἀθηναίων, ἀλλὰ διενοεῖτο, ὅτι καὶ τοὺς Ἀργείους ἑώρα·2 ἦν δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς τὸ ἀρχαῖον ἐξ Ἄργους. καὶ τοῖς Χαλκιδεῦσι τούς τε παλαιοὺς ὅρκους ἀνενεώσαντο καὶ ἄλλους ὤμοσαν.
They also pushed forward other matters with enthusiasm, and both states sent ambassadors to the places in the direction of Thrace and to Perdiccas, and they persuaded Perdiccas to join their alliance. He did not, however, immediately revolt from the Athenians, but was deliberating because he saw the Argives doing so; for he himself was of Argive descent in ancient times. They also renewed their ancient oaths with the Chalcidians and swore new ones.
ἔπεμψαν δὲ καὶ παρὰ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους οἱ Ἀργεῖοι πρέσβεις, τὸ ἐξ Ἐπιδαύρου τεῖχος κελεύοντες ἐκλιπεῖν. οἱ δ’ ὁρῶντες ὀλίγοι πρὸς πλείους ὄντες τοὺς ξυμφύλακας,3 ἔπεμψαν Δημοσθένη τοὺς σφετέρους ἐξάξοντα. ὁ δὲ ἀφικόμενος καὶ ἀγῶνά τινα πρόφασιν γυμνικὸν ἔξω τοῦ φρουρίου ποιήσας, ὡς ἐξῆλθε τὸ ἄλλο φρούριον, ἀπέκλῃσε τὰς πύλας· καὶ ὕστερον Ἐπιδαυρίοις ἀνανεωσάμενοι τὰς σπονδὰς αὐτοὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀπέδοσαν τὸ τείχισμα.
The Argives also sent ambassadors to the Athenians, ordering them to evacuate the fort at Epidaurus. The Athenians, seeing that they were few in number compared to the other guards, sent Demosthenes to bring their men out. Upon his arrival, having arranged a gymnastic contest outside the fortress as a pretext, when the rest of the garrison went out, he shut the gates; and later, having renewed the treaty with the Epidaurians, the Athenians themselves restored the fort.
- 5.80.1ἀλλ’ ἢ ἅμα
The idiom ἀλλ’ ἢ after a negative means 'except' or 'other than'. Here it modifies the infinitive clauses μὴ ξυμβαίνειν μηδὲ πολεμεῖν, specifying that they must not make peace or war with anyone except 'in common' (ἅμα).
- 5.80.2ὅτι καὶ τοὺς Ἀργείους ἑώρα
ὅτι is taken as a causal conjunction ('because'). It explains the reason why Perdiccas did not immediately revolt: 'because he saw that the Argives [had also joined the alliance]'. Although it could theoretically introduce an object clause after διενοεῖτο, the causal reading is more natural in this context.
- 5.80.3ὁρῶντες ὀλίγοι πρὸς πλείους ὄντες τοὺς ξυμφύλακας
The participle ὄντες agrees with the subject (the Athenians), and ὀλίγοι (few) is its nominative complement. On the other hand, πλείους (more numerous) is in the accusative, modifying τοὺς ξυμφύλακας (the joint-guards). It forms a contrast: 'seeing that they themselves were few compared to the more numerous joint-guards.'