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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 · 2026-11-05
The Lacedaemonian expedition against Argos, the joint Athenian-Argive siege and destruction of Orneae, Athenian raids in Macedonia, and the conclusion of the sixteenth year of the war are described.
καὶ οἱ μὲν πρέσβεις τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἀπεστάλησαν ἐς τὴν Σικελίαν· Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ τοῦ αὐτοῦ χειμῶνος καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι πλὴν Κορινθίων στρατεύσαντες ἐς τὴν Ἀργείαν τῆς τε γῆς ἔτεμον οὐ πολλὴν1 καὶ σῖτον ἀνεκομίσαντό τινα ζεύγη κομίσαντες, καὶ ἐς Ὀρνεὰς κατοικίσαντες τοὺς Ἀργείων φυγάδας καὶ τῆς ἄλλης στρατιᾶς παρακαταλιπόντες αὐτοῖς ὀλίγους, καὶ σπεισάμενοί τινα χρόνον ὥστε μὴ ἀδικεῖν Ὀρνεάτας καὶ Ἀργείους τὴν ἀλλήλων,2 ἀπεχώρησαν τῷ στρατῷ ἐπ’ οἴκου.
And the Athenian envoys were dispatched to Sicily. Meanwhile, in the same winter, the Lacedaemonians and their allies, except the Corinthians, campaigned against the Argive territory; they ravaged a small part of the land, and carried off some corn, having brought wagons with them; and having settled the Argive exiles in Orneae, leaving behind for them a small part of the rest of the army, and having made a truce for a certain time so that the Orneates and the Argives should not injure one another’s land, they withdrew with their army to home.
ἐλθόντων δὲ Ἀθηναίων οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον ναυσὶ τριάκοντα καὶ ἑξακοσίοις ὁπλίταις, οἱ Ἀργεῖοι μετὰ τῶν Ἀθηναίων πανστρατιᾷ ἐξελθόντες τοὺς μὲν ἐν Ὀρνεαῖς μίαν ἡμέραν ἐπολιόρκουν· ὑπὸ δὲ νύκτα αὐλισαμένου τοῦ στρατεύματος ἄπωθεν3 ἐκδιδράσκουσιν οἱ ἐκ τῶν Ὀρνεῶν. καὶ τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ οἱ Ἀργεῖοι ὡς ᾔσθοντο, κατασκάψαντες τὰς Ὀρνεὰς ἀνεχώρησαν καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ὕστερον ταῖς ναυσὶν ἐπ’ οἴκου.
And not long afterwards, when the Athenians arrived with thirty ships and six hundred hoplites, the Argives, having marched out in full force with the Athenians, besieged those in Orneae for one day. But under cover of night, when the army had bivouacked at a distance, those from Orneae escaped. And on the following day, when the Argives perceived this, they razed Orneae to the ground and withdrew, and the Athenians later returned home with their ships.
καὶ ἐς Μεθώνην τὴν ὅμορον Μακεδονίᾳ ἱππέας κατὰ θάλασσαν κομίσαντες Ἀθηναῖοι σφῶν τε αὐτῶν καὶ Μακεδόνων τοὺς παρὰ σφίσι φυγάδας4 ἐκακούργουν τὴν Περδίκκου.
The Athenians also, having transported by sea to Methone, which borders Macedonia, cavalry consisting of their own men and those Macedonian exiles who were with them, ravaged the territory of Perdiccas.
Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ πέμψαντες παρὰ Χαλκιδέας τοὺς ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης, ἄγοντας πρὸς Ἀθηναίους δεχημέρους σπονδάς, ξυμπολεμεῖν ἐκέλευον Περδίκκᾳ· οἱ δ’ οὐκ ἤθελον. καὶ ὁ χειμὼν ἐτελεύτα, καὶ ἕκτον καὶ δέκατον ἔτος ἐτελεύτα τῷ πολέμῳ τῷδε ὃν Θουκυδίδης ξυνέγραψεν.
Meanwhile, the Lacedaemonians sent to the Chalcidians of Thrace, who had a ten-day truce with the Athenians, and urged them to join Perdiccas in the war; but they refused. And the winter ended, and with it the sixteenth year of this war of which Thucydides wrote the history.
- 6.7.1τῆς τε γῆς ἔτεμον οὐ πολλὴν
τῆς γῆς is a partitive genitive, modifying the direct object of the verb ἔτεμον, which is οὐ πολλὴν (meaning 'not a large part' of the land).
- 6.7.1ὥστε μὴ ἀδικεῖν Ὀρνεάτας καὶ Ἀργείους τὴν ἀλλήλων
A construction of ὥστε with the infinitive ἀδικεῖν. The accusative phrase Ὀρνεάτας καὶ Ἀργείους serves as the subject of the infinitive, and the noun γῆν ('land') is omitted after the feminine article and possessive genitive τὴν ἀλλήλων.
- 6.7.2ὑπὸ δὲ νύκτα αὐλισαμένου τοῦ στρατεύματος ἄπωθεν
αὐλισαμένου τοῦ στρατεύματος is a genitive absolute. The prepositional phrase ὑπὸ νύκτα ('under cover of night' or 'towards night') functions as a temporal modifier, and the adverb ἄπωθεν ('at a distance') modifies the participle αὐλισαμένου.
- 6.7.3σφῶν τε αὐτῶν καὶ Μακεδόνων τοὺς παρὰ σφίσι φυγάδας
Two parallel elements modifying the accusative noun ἱππέας (cavalry): the genitive of the reflexive pronoun σφῶν αὐτῶν ('of themselves / their own') and the noun phrase Μακεδόνων... φυγάδας ('the Macedonian exiles'), which is modified by the prepositional phrase παρὰ σφίσι ('with them').