- Source
- Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:7.52.1-7.52.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
On the following day, the Syracusans attacked with seventy-six ships and their land forces, and the Athenians countered with eighty-six ships. The Syracusans defeated the Athenian center, cut off and killed Eurymedon on the right wing in the recess of the harbor, and drove all the Athenian ships ashore.
καὶ ταύτῃ μὲν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπεχώρησεν ἡ στρατιὰ τῶν Συρακοσίων· τῇ δ’ ὑστεραίᾳ ταῖς τε ναυσὶν ἐκπλέουσιν οὔσαις ἓξ καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα καὶ τῷ πεζῷ ἅμα πρὸς τὰ τείχη ἐχώρουν. οἱ δ’ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀντανῆγον ναυσὶν ἓξ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ προσμείξαντες ἐναυμάχουν.
And on this day the army of the Syracusans withdrew. But on the following day they sailed out with seventy-six ships, and at the same time advanced with their land forces against the walls. The Athenians put out to meet them with eighty-six ships, and closing with them, engaged in a sea-battle.
καὶ τὸν Εὐρυμέδοντα ἔχοντα1 τὸ δεξιὸν κέρας τῶν Ἀθηναίων καὶ βουλόμενον περικλῄσασθαι τὰς ναῦς τῶν ἐναντίων καὶ ἐπεξάγοντα τῷ πλῷ2 πρὸς τὴν γῆν μᾶλλον, νικήσαντες οἱ Συρακόσιοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι τὸ μέσον πρῶτον τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἀπολαμβάνουσι κἀκεῖνον ἐν τῷ κοίλῳ καὶ μυχῷ τοῦ λιμένος καὶ αὐτόν τε διαφθείρουσι καὶ τὰς μετ’ αὐτοῦ ναῦς ἐπισπομένας·3 ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τὰς πάσας ἤδη ναῦς τῶν Ἀθηναίων κατεδίωκόν τε καὶ ἐξεώθουν ἐς τὴν γῆν.
And Eurymedon, who commanded the right wing of the Athenians and wished to surround the ships of the enemy, and therefore extended his line in sailing more towards the shore, was cut off by the Syracusans and their allies, after they had first defeated the center of the Athenians, in the hollow and innermost recess of the harbor; and they destroyed both Eurymedon himself and the ships that had followed him. After this they pursued and drove ashore all the remaining Athenian ships as well.
- 7.52.2τὸν Εὐρυμέδοντα ἔχοντα...
The accusative τὸν Εὐρυμέδοντα at the beginning, together with the participles ending in ἐπεξάγοντα, serves as the direct object of the main verbs ἀπολαμβάνουσι and διαφθείρουσι. The subject οἱ Συρακόσιοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι, accompanied by the participle clause νικήσαντες..., is inserted in the middle, creating a prominent hyperbaton. κἀκεῖνον (καὶ ἐκεῖνον) is used to resume and emphasize the object Εὐρυμέδοντα after the long insertion.
- 7.52.2ἐπεξάγοντα τῷ πλῷ
The dative τῷ πλῷ (course, sailing) is used with ἐπεξάγοντα (extending, stretching out, here used intransitively or reflexively) as a dative of manner or instrument, meaning "extending his line of sailing" or "stretching out in his course."
- 7.52.2τὰς μετ’ αὐτοῦ ναῦς ἐπισπομένας
ἐπισπομένας is the aorist participle middle (accusative feminine plural) of ἐφέπομαι (to follow), modifying τὰς μετ’ αὐτοῦ ναῦς, meaning "the ships that had followed him."