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- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
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A naval battle takes place near Erineus between the Peloponnesian (Corinthian) and Athenian fleets, resulting in an indecisive outcome where both sides claim victory and erect trophies.
οἱ δὲ Πελοποννήσιοι περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον τοῦτον οἱ ἐν ταῖς πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι ναυσίν, οἵπερ τῶν ὁλκάδων ἕνεκα τῆς ἐς Σικελίαν κομιδῆς ἀνθώρμουν πρὸς τὰς ἐν Ναυπάκτῳ ναῦς, παρασκευασάμενοι ὡς ἐπὶ ναυμαχίᾳ καὶ προσπληρώσαντες ἔτι ναῦς ὥστε ὀλίγῳ ἐλάσσους εἶναι αὐτοῖς1 τῶν Ἀττικῶν νεῶν, ὁρμίζονται κατὰ Ἐρινεὸν τῆς Ἀχαΐας ἐν τῇ Ῥυπικῇ.
Meanwhile, about this same time, the Peloponnesians in the twenty-five ships, who, for the sake of the passage of the merchantmen to Sicily, were lying at anchor opposite the ships at Naupactus, having made preparations as if for a naval battle and having manned additional ships so that theirs were only slightly fewer than the Athenian ships, anchored off Erineus in Achaea, in the district of Rhypae.
καὶ αὐτοῖς τοῦ χωρίου μηνοειδοῦς ὄντος2 ἐφ’ ᾧ ὥρμουν, ὁ μὲν πεζὸς ἑκατέρωθεν προσβεβοηθηκὼς τῶν τε Κορινθίων καὶ τῶν αὐτόθεν ξυμμάχων ἐπὶ ταῖς προανεχούσαις ἄκραις παρετέτακτο, αἱ δὲ νῆες τὸ μεταξὺ εἶχον ἐμφάρξασαι· ἦρχε δὲ τοῦ ναυτικοῦ Πολυάνθης Κορίνθιος.
And as the place where they were anchored was crescent-shaped, the land force, which had come to their aid from both sides, consisting of both the Corinthians and the local allies, was drawn up on the projecting headlands, while the ships occupied the intervening space, blocking it. Polyanthes the Corinthian was in command of the fleet.
οἱ δ’ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐκ τῆς Ναυπάκτου τριάκοντα ναυσὶ καὶ τρισίν (ἦρχε δὲ αὐτῶν Δίφιλος) ἐπέπλευσαν αὐτοῖς.
The Athenians sailed out against them from Naupactus with thirty-three ships, under the command of Diphilus.
καὶ οἱ Κορίνθιοι τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἡσύχαζον, ἔπειτα ἀρθέντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ σημείου, ἐπεὶ καιρὸς ἐδόκει εἶναι, ὥρμησαν ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους καὶ ἐναυμάχουν. καὶ χρόνον ἀντεῖχον πολὺν ἀλλήλοις.
The Corinthians at first remained quiet, but then, when the signal was raised for them, since it seemed to be the right moment, they advanced against the Athenians and joined battle. They held out against each other for a long time.
καὶ τῶν μὲν Κορινθίων τρεῖς νῆες διαφθείρονται, τῶν δ’ Ἀθηναίων κατέδυ μὲν οὐδεμία ἁπλῶς, ἑπτὰ δέ τινες ἄπλοι ἐγένοντο ἀντίπρῳροι ἐμβαλλόμεναι καὶ ἀναρραγεῖσαι τὰς παρεξειρεσίας3 ὑπὸ τῶν Κορινθίων νεῶν ἐπ’ αὐτὸ τοῦτο παχυτέρας τὰς ἐπωτίδας ἐχουσῶν.
On the side of the Corinthians three ships were destroyed; of the Athenians, though no ship was actually sunk, some seven were rendered unseaworthy, having been struck prow-to-prow and having their outriggers torn away by the Corinthian ships, which had their catheads made thicker for this very purpose.
ναυμαχήσαντες δὲ ἀντίπαλα μὲν καὶ ὡς αὐτοὺς ἑκατέρους ἀξιοῦν νικᾶν,4 ὅμως δὲ τῶν ναυαγίων κρατησάντων τῶν Ἀθηναίων διά τε τὴν τοῦ ἀνέμου ἄπωσιν αὐτῶν ἐς τὸ πέλαγος καὶ διὰ τὴν τῶν Κορινθίων οὐκέτι ἐπαναγωγήν, διεκρίθησαν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, καὶ δίωξις οὐδεμία ἐγένετο, οὐδ’ ἄνδρες οὐδετέρων ἑάλωσαν· οἱ μὲν γὰρ Κορίνθιοι καὶ Πελοποννήσιοι πρὸς τῇ γῇ ναυμαχοῦντες ῥᾳδίως διεσῴζοντο, τῶν δὲ Ἀθηναίων οὐδεμία κατέδυ ναῦς.
After fighting an indecisive battle, so that each side claimed the victory, they nevertheless parted from one another, the Athenians having secured the wrecks because the wind drifted them out to sea and because the Corinthians did not sail out against them again. No pursuit took place, nor were any prisoners taken on either side; for the Corinthians and Peloponnesians, fighting close to the land, easily saved themselves, and of the Athenians no ship was sunk.
ἀποπλευσάντων δὲ τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐς τὴν Ναύπακτον οἱ Κορίνθιοι εὐθὺς τροπαῖον ἔστησαν ὡς νικῶντες, ὅτι πλείους τῶν ἐναντίων ναῦς ἄπλους ἐποίησαν καὶ νομίσαντες αὐτοὶ οὐχ ἡσσᾶσθαι δι’ ὅπερ οὐδ’ οἱ ἕτεροι νικᾶν·5 οἵ τε γὰρ Κορίνθιοι ἡγήσαντο κρατεῖν εἰ μὴ καὶ πολὺ ἐκρατοῦντο, οἵ τ’ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐνόμιζον ἡσσᾶσθαι ὅτι οὐ πολὺ ἐνίκων.
When the Athenians had sailed back to Naupactus, the Corinthians immediately erected a trophy as victors, because they had disabled more of the enemy’s ships and because they considered that they themselves had not been defeated, for which very reason the others did not consider themselves victorious; for the Corinthians deemed themselves to have the upper hand if they were not decisively defeated, and the Athenians thought themselves defeated because they were not decisively victorious.
ἀποπλευσάντων δὲ τῶν Πελοποννησίων καὶ τοῦ πεζοῦ διαλυθέντος οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἔστησαν τροπαῖον καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐν τῇ Ἀχαΐᾳ ὡς νικήσαντες,ἀπέχον τοῦ Ἐρινεοῦ, ἐν ᾧ οἱ Κορίνθιοι ὥρμουν, ὡς εἴκοσι σταδίους. καὶ ἡ μὲν ναυμαχία οὕτως ἐτελεύτα.
But when the Peloponnesians had sailed away and their land force had dispersed, the Athenians also erected a trophy in Achaea as victors, at a distance of about twenty stades from Erineus, where the Corinthians had been anchored. And so the naval battle ended.
- 7.34.1αὐτοῖς
The dative αὐτοῖς functions as a dative of possessor or reference with the infinitive εἶναι in the consecutive ὥστε clause, indicating that "their" ships were only slightly fewer than those of the Athenians.
- 7.34.2αὐτοῖς τοῦ χωρίου μηνοειδοῦς ὄντος
A combination of the dative αὐτοῖς (dative of reference or interest) with the genitive absolute τοῦ χωρίου μηνοειδοῦς ὄντος ("the place of their anchorage being crescent-shaped for them").
- 7.34.5τὰς παρεξειρεσίας
An accusative of specification (or retained accusative) with the passive participle ἀναρραγεῖσαι ("having been torn away as to their outriggers").
- 7.34.6ὡς αὐτοὺς ἑκατέρους ἀξιοῦν νικᾶν
The conjunction ὡς introduces the infinitive ἀξιοῦν to express result, with the accusative αὐτοὺς ἑκατέρους acting as its subject accusative. The infinitive νικᾶν depends on ἀξιοῦν ("so that each of them claimed to be victorious").
- 7.34.7δι’ ὅπερ οὐδ’ οἱ ἕτεροι νικᾶν
The infinitive νικᾶν depends on an ellipted verb of thinking (such as ἐνόμιζον) implied from the preceding participle νομίσαντες, with οἱ ἕτεροι functioning as the subject: "for which very reason the others also did not [think] they had won."