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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 · 2026-11-08
While reinforcements from Sicilian cities like Camarina and Gela arrive to help Syracuse, aligning almost all of Sicily against Athens, Demosthenes and Eurymedon cross the Ionian Sea with their forces and recruit local allies along the Italian coast before arriving in Thuria.
καὶ περὶ τὰς αὐτὰς ἡμέρας καὶ οἱ Καμαριναῖοι ἀφικνοῦνται αὐτοῖς βοηθοῦντες, πεντακόσιοι μὲν ὁπλῖται, τριακόσιοι δὲ ἀκοντισταὶ καὶ τοξόται τριακόσιοι. ἔπεμψαν δὲ καὶ οἱ Γελῷοι ναυτικόν τε ἐς πέντε ναῦς καὶ ἀκοντιστὰς τετρακοσίους καὶ ἱππέας διακοσίους.
And about the same days the Camarinaeans also arrived to help them, with five hundred hoplites, three hundred javelin-throwers, and three hundred archers. The Geloans also sent a naval force of five ships, four hundred javelin-throwers, and two hundred cavalry.
σχεδὸν γάρ τι ἤδη πᾶσα ἡ Σικελία πλὴν Ἀκραγαντίνων (οὗτοι δ’ οὐδὲ μεθ’ ἑτέρων ἦσαν), οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους μετὰ τῶν Συρακοσίων οἱ πρότερον περιορώμενοι ξυστάντες ἐβοήθουν.1
For by this time almost the whole of Sicily, except the Agrigentines (who sided with neither party), but all the rest, who had previously stood aloof, having united, were helping the Syracusans against the Athenians.
καὶ οἱ μὲν Συρακόσιοι, ὡς αὐτοῖς τὸ ἐν τοῖς Σικελοῖς πάθος ἐγένετο, ἐπέσχον τὸ εὐθέως τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ἐπιχειρεῖν· ὁ δὲ Δημοσθένης καὶ Εὐρυμέδων, ἑτοίμης ἤδη τῆς στρατιᾶς οὔσης ἔκ τε τῆς Κερκύρας καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς ἠπείρου, ἐπεραιώθησαν ξυμπάσῃ τῇ στρατιᾷ τὸν Ἰόνιον ἐπ’ ἄκραν Ἰαπυγίαν·
And the Syracusans, when the disaster among the Sicels befell them, refrained from immediately attacking the Athenians; but Demosthenes and Eurymedon, their army being now ready from Corcyra and the mainland, crossed the Ionian Sea with the entire force to the Iapygian promontory.
καὶ ὁρμηθέντες αὐτόθεν κατίσχουσιν ἐς τὰς Χοιράδας νήσους Ἰαπυγίας, καὶ ἀκοντιστάς τέ τινας τῶν Ἰαπύγων πεντήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν τοῦ Μεσσαπίου ἔθνους ἀναβιβάζονται ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς, καὶ τῷ Ἄρτᾳ, ὅσπερ καὶ τοὺς ἀκοντιστὰς δυνάστης ὢν παρέσχετο αὐτοῖς, ἀνανεωσάμενοί τινα παλαιὰν φιλίαν ἀφικνοῦνται ἐς Μεταπόντιον τῆς Ἰταλίας.
Setting out from there, they put in at the Choerades islands of Iapygia, and took on board their ships some one hundred and fifty Iapygian javelin-throwers of the Messapian tribe, and, having renewed an ancient friendship with Artas, the chieftain who had provided them with the javelin-throwers, they arrived at Metapontum in Italy.
καὶ τοὺς Μεταποντίους πείσαντες κατὰ τὸ ξυμμαχικὸν ἀκοντιστάς τε ξυμπέμπειν τριακοσίους καὶ τριήρεις δύο καὶ ἀναλαβόντες ταῦτα παρέπλευσαν ἐς Θουρίαν. καὶ καταλαμβάνουσι νεωστὶ στάσει τοὺς τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐναντίους ἐκπεπτωκότας·
And having persuaded the Metapontines to send with them, in accordance with the alliance, three hundred javelin-throwers and two triremes, they took these along and coasted to Thuria. There they found that the party opposed to the Athenians had recently been expelled in a faction-fight.
καὶ βουλόμενοι τὴν στρατιὰν αὐτόθι πᾶσαν ἁθροίσαντες εἴ τις ὑπελέλειπτο ἐξετάσαι, καὶ τοὺς Θουρίους πεῖσαι σφίσι ξυστρατεύειν τε ὡς προθυμότατα καί, ἐπειδήπερ ἐν τούτῳ τύχης εἰσί, τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐχθροὺς καὶ φίλους τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις νομίζειν,2 περιέμενον ἐν τῇ Θουρίᾳ καὶ ἔπρασσον ταῦτα.
Wishing to assemble their whole army there and review it to see if any had been left behind, and also to persuade the Thurians to join them in the campaign with the utmost zeal and, since they were in this state of fortune, to regard the same people as enemies and friends as the Athenians did, they waited in Thuria and negotiated these matters.
- 7.33.2σχεδὸν γάρ τι ἤδη πᾶσα ἡ Σικελία πλὴν Ἀκραγαντίνων ... οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι ... ἐβοήθουν
A grammatical anacoluthon occurs where the singular subject πᾶσα ἡ Σικελία is introduced, but after the exception of Ἀκραγαντίνων, the plural pronoun οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι is inserted, leading to the plural verb ἐβοήθουν. This shift from singular to plural is a constructio ad sensum, as 'all Sicily' implies the various states composing it.
- 7.33.6τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐχθροὺς καὶ φίλους τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις νομίζειν
This phrase means 'to regard the same people as enemies and friends as the Athenians do' (i.e., to share the same friends and enemies). This is a standard formulaic expression for contracting a formal alliance (symmachia) in ancient Greece. Here, the infinitive νομίζειν is dependent on πεῖσαι ('to persuade').