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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
Demosthenes and Eurymedon, after obtaining reinforcements from Thurii, march by land but are refused passage by the Crotoniats, prompting them to embark their army and sail to Petra in Rhegian territory.
ὁ δὲ Δημοσθένης καὶ Εὐρυμέδων, ἐπειδὴ ξυστρατεύειν αὐτοῖς οἱ Θούριοι παρεσκευάσθησαν ἑπτακοσίοις μὲν ὁπλίταις, τριακοσίοις δὲ ἀκοντισταῖς,1 τὰς μὲν ναῦς παραπλεῖν ἐκέλευον ἐπὶ τῆς Κροτωνιάτιδος, αὐτοὶ δὲ τὸν πεζὸν πάντα ἐξετάσαντες πρῶτον ἐπὶ τῷ Συβάρει ποταμῷ ἦγον διὰ τῆς Θουριάδος γῆς.
Demosthenes and Eurymedon, when the Thurians had made ready to join them in the campaign with seven hundred hoplites and three hundred javelin-throwers, ordered the ships to sail along the coast of the territory of Croton, while they themselves, having first reviewed the entire land force at the river Sybaris, led them through the Thurian territory.
καὶ ὡς ἐγένοντο ἐπὶ τῷ Ὑλίᾳ ποταμῷ καὶ αὐτοῖς οἱ Κροτωνιᾶται προσπέμψαντες εἶπον οὐκ ἂν σφίσι βουλομένοις εἶναι2 διὰ τῆς γῆς σφῶν τὸν στρατὸν ἰέναι, ἐπικαταβάντες ηὐλίσαντο πρὸς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὴν ἐκβολὴν τοῦ Ὑλίου· καὶ αἱ νῆες αὐτοῖς ἐς τὸ αὐτὸ ἀπήντων. τῇ δ’ ὑστεραίᾳ ἀναβιβασάμενοι3 παρέπλεον, ἴσχοντες πρὸς ταῖς πόλεσι πλὴν Λοκρῶν, ἕως ἀφίκοντο ἐπὶ Πέτραν τῆς Ῥηγίνης.
And when they arrived at the river Hylias and the Crotoniats sent a message to them saying that it would not be according to their wish for the army to pass through their territory, they marched down and encamped near the sea and the mouth of the Hylias; and the ships met them at the same place. On the following day, having embarked their forces, they sailed along the coast, touching at the cities, except that of the Locrians, until they arrived at Petra in the territory of Rhegium.
- 7.35.1ἑπτακοσίοις μὲν ὁπλίταις, τριακοσίοις δὲ ἀκοντισταῖς
Dative of military accompaniment.
- 7.35.2οὐκ ἂν σφίσι βουλομένοις εἶναι
An idiomatic construction of εἰμί with a dative and the participle βουλόμενος, meaning 'to be in accordance with one's wish'. In indirect discourse, οὐκ ἂν ... εἶναι represents an original optative with ἄν (οὐκ ἂν ... εἴη), expressing a conditional potentiality.
- 7.35.2ἀναβιβασάμενοι
A middle participle from the verb ἀναβιβάζω, meaning 'having embarked' (transitive here, referring to making the land forces embark).