- 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-grc2:8.13.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Sixteen Peloponnesian ships returning from Sicily under Gylippus were intercepted near Leucas by Athenian forces, but all except one successfully escaped and reached Corinth.
ἀνεκομίζοντο δὲ ὑπὸ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον τοῦτον καὶ αἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Σικελίας Πελοποννησίων ἑκκαίδεκα νῆες αἱ μετὰ Γυλίππου ξυνδιαπολεμήσασαι· καὶ περὶ τὴν Λευκάδα ἀποληφθεῖσαι καὶ κοπεῖσαι ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀττικῶν ἑπτὰ καὶ εἴκοσι νεῶν, ὧν ἦρχεν Ἱπποκλῆς Μενίππου φυλακὴν ἔχων1 τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς Σικελίας νεῶν, αἱ λοιπαὶ πλὴν μιᾶς2 διαφυγοῦσαι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους κατέπλευσαν ἐς τὴν Κόρινθον.
At about this same time, the sixteen Peloponnesian ships from Sicily which had fought through the war with Gylippus were also returning home; and having been intercepted near Leucas and battered by the twenty-seven Attic ships under the command of Hippocles son of Menippus, who was keeping watch for the ships from Sicily, the rest except one escaped the Athenians and sailed into Corinth.
- 8.13.1φυλακὴν ἔχων
The phrase combining the verb ἔχω and the noun φυλακή means 'keeping guard' or 'watching for,' taking the genitive 'the ships from Sicily' (τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς Σικελίας νεῶν) as its object.
- 8.13.1αἱ ... ἑκκαίδεκα νῆες ... αἱ λοιπαὶ πλὴν μιᾶς
The subject introduced at the beginning, 'the sixteen ships' (αἱ ἑκκαίδεκα νῆες), serves as the subject of the first verb 'were returning' (ἀνεκομίζοντο). However, after the intervening participle clauses, the subject shifts to 'the rest except one' (αἱ λοιπαὶ πλὴν μιᾶς) for the final verb 'sailed into port' (κατέπλευσαν). This is an example of anacoluthon, prioritizing the logical flow of the narrative over strict grammatical consistency.