- 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 · 2026-11-08
Encouraged by Alcibiades' speech, the Lacedaemonians decide to fortify Decelea and appoint Gylippus to lead the relief effort to Sicily. Meanwhile, the Athenians vote to send additional maintenance funds and cavalry to their army in Sicily, bringing the seventeenth year of the war to a close.
ὁ μὲν Ἀλκιβιάδης τοσαῦτα εἶπεν, οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι διανοούμενοι μὲν καὶ αὐτοὶ πρότερον στρατεύειν ἐπὶ τὰς Ἀθήνας, μέλλοντες δ’ ἔτι καὶ περιορώμενοι, πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἐπερρώσθησαν διδάξαντος ταῦτα ἕκαστα αὐτοῦ1 καὶ νομίσαντες παρὰ τοῦ σαφέστατα εἰδότος ἀκηκοέναι·
Alcibiades spoke thus much; and the Lacedaemonians, who even of themselves had previously intended to make an expedition against Athens, but were still delaying and looking about them, were much more encouraged when he had explained all these details to them, believing that they had heard them from the one who knew them most clearly.
ὥστε τῇ ἐπιτειχίσει τῆς Δεκελείας προσεῖχον ἤδη τὸν νοῦν καὶ τὸ παραυτίκα καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῇ Σικελίᾳ πέμπειν τινὰ τιμωρίαν. καὶ Γύλιππον τὸν Κλεανδρίδου προστάξαντες ἄρχοντα τοῖς Συρακοσίοις ἐκέλευον μετ’ ἐκείνων καὶ τῶν Κορινθίων βουλευόμενον ποιεῖν ὅπῃ ἐκ τῶν παρόντων μάλιστα καὶ τάχιστά τις ὠφελία ἥξει τοῖς ἐκεῖ.
Consequently, they already turned their attention to the fortifying of Decelea, and at the same time to sending some assistance to those in Sicily. And having appointed Gylippus, the son of Cleandridas, as commander for the Syracusans, they ordered him, in consultation with them and the Corinthians, to take measures so that some help might reach those there in the most effective and quickest way possible under the circumstances.
ὁ δὲ δύο μὲν ναῦς τοὺς Κορινθίους ἤδη ἐκέλευέν οἱ πέμπειν ἐς Ἀσίνην, τὰς δὲ λοιπὰς παρασκευάζεσθαι ὅσας διανοοῦνται πέμπειν καί, ὅταν καιρὸς ᾖ, ἑτοίμας εἶναι πλεῖν. ταῦτα δὲ ξυνθέμενοι ἀνεχώρουν ἐκ τῆς Λακεδαίμονος.
He ordered the Corinthians to send two ships to him at Asine immediately, and to prepare the rest of the ships they intended to send, so that they would be ready to sail whenever the opportunity arose. Having agreed on these matters, they departed from Lacedaemon.
ἀφίκετο δὲ καὶ ἡ ἐκ τῆς Σικελίας τριήρης τῶν Ἀθηναίων, ἣν ἀπέστειλαν οἱ στρατηγοὶ ἐπί τε χρήματα καὶ ἱππέας. καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀκούσαντες ἐψηφίσαντο τήν τε τροφὴν πέμπειν τῇ στρατιᾷ καὶ τοὺς ἱππέας. καὶ ὁ χειμὼν ἐτελεύτα, καὶ ἕβδομον καὶ δέκατον ἔτος τῷ πολέμῳ ἐτελεύτα τῷδε ὃν Θουκυδίδης ξυνέγραψεν.
And the Athenian trireme from Sicily also arrived, which the generals had sent for money and cavalry. And the Athenians, having heard this, voted to send both the maintenance funds for the army and the cavalry. And the winter ended, and so ended the seventeenth year of this war of which Thucydides wrote.
- 6.93.1διδάξαντος ταῦτα ἕκαστα αὐτοῦ
Genitive absolute construction. Its logical subject is "αὐτοῦ" (Alcibiades), which is distinct from the subject of the main clause, "οἱ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι" (the Lacedaemonians).