- 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
In response to the fortification of Decelea, the Athenians dispatch Charicles with a fleet around the Peloponnese and send Demosthenes with a large reinforcement to Sicily. Demosthenes assembles his forces at Aegina, awaiting Charicles to bring the Argive allies.
ἐν δὲ τούτῳ καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἅμα τῆς Δεκελείας τῷ τειχισμῷ καὶ τοῦ ἦρος εὐθὺς ἀρχομένου περί τε Πελοπόννησον ναῦς τριάκοντα ἔστειλαν καὶ Χαρικλέα τὸν Ἀπολλοδώρου ἄρχοντα, ᾧ εἴρητο καὶ ἐς Ἄργος ἀφικομένῳ κατὰ τὸ ξυμμαχικὸν παρακαλεῖν1 Ἀργείων [τε] ὁπλίτας ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς, καὶ τὸν Δημοσθένη ἐς τὴν Σικελίαν, ὥσπερ ἔμελλον, ἀπέστελλον ἑξήκοντα μὲν ναυσὶν Ἀθηναίων καὶ πέντε Χίαις, ὁπλίταις δὲ ἐκ καταλόγου Ἀθηναίων διακοσίοις καὶ χιλίοις, καὶ νησιωτῶν ὅσοις ἑκασταχόθεν οἷόν τ’ ἦν πλείστοις χρήσασθαι, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἄλλων ξυμμάχων τῶν ὑπηκόων, εἴ ποθέν τι εἶχον ἐπιτήδειον ἐς τὸν πόλεμον, ξυμπορίσαντες. εἴρητο δ’ αὐτῷ πρῶτον μετὰ τοῦ Χαρικλέους ἅμα περιπλέοντα ξυστρατεύεσθαι2 περὶ τὴν Λακωνικήν.
In the meantime, at the same time as the fortification of Decelea and at the very beginning of spring, the Athenians also sent thirty ships around the Peloponnese and Charicles the son of Apollodorus as commander, who had been instructed, upon arriving at Argos, to call upon the Argive hoplites to embark on the ships in accordance with the alliance. And they were dispatching Demosthenes to Sicily, as they had intended, with sixty Athenian and five Chian ships, twelve hundred Athenian hoplites from the roll, as many of the islanders from various places as it was possible to employ, and having collected from the other subject allies whatever they had that was useful for the war from any source. And he had been instructed first, while sailing round together with Charicles, to join in the campaign around Laconia.
καὶ ὁ μὲν Δημοσθένης ἐς τὴν Αἴγιναν προσπλεύσας τοῦ στρατεύματός τε εἴ τι ὑπελέλειπτο περιέμενε καὶ τὸν Χαρικλέα τοὺς Ἀργείους παραλαβεῖν.3
So Demosthenes, having sailed to Aegina, waited there for any part of the army that had been left behind, and for Charicles to pick up the Argives.
- 7.20.1ᾧ εἴρητο... παρακαλεῖν
The passive perfect εἴρητο is used impersonally with the dative of agent ᾧ, meaning 'it had been told to him,' with the infinitive παρακαλεῖν serving as the grammatical subject. The participle ἀφικομένῳ agrees in the dative with ᾧ.
- 7.20.2αὐτῷ ... περιπλέοντα ξυστρατεύεσθαι
While the dative αὐτῷ denotes the person commanded (as the agent of the impersonal εἴρητο), the participle περιπλέοντα modifying the subject of the infinitive ξυστρατεύεσθαι is in the accusative case. This shift from dative to accusative for the subject of an infinitive is a common classical idiom.
- 7.20.3τὸν Χαρικλέα ... παραλαβεῖν
The verb περιέμενε ('waited for') takes a genitive object in the first half of the sentence (τοῦ στρατεύματος), but here takes an Accusative with Infinitive construction (τὸν Χαρικλέα ... παραλαβεῖν) as its object, showing the verb's capacity to govern different syntactical structures in parallel.