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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
With the coming of spring, urged by the Chians who feared Athenian discovery, the Lacedaemonians sent three envoys to Corinth to order thirty-nine allied ships to be dragged across the Isthmus and sail to Chios.
ἅμα δὲ τῷ ἦρι τοῦ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους1 εὐθὺς ἐπειγομένων τῶν Χίων ἀποστεῖλαι τὰς ναῦς καὶ δεδιότων μὴ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τὰ πρασσόμενα αἴσθωνται (πάντες γὰρ κρύφα αὐτῶν2 ἐπρεσβεύοντο), ἀποπέμπουσιν οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἐς Κόρινθον ἄνδρας Σπαρτιάτας τρεῖς, ὅπως ἀπὸ τῆς ἑτέρας θαλάσσης ὡς τάχιστα ἐπὶ τὴν πρὸς Ἀθήνας ὑπερενεγκόντες τὰς ναῦς τὸν Ἰσθμὸν κελεύσωσι πλεῖν ἐς Χίον πάσας, καὶ ἃς ὁ Ἆγις παρεσκεύαζεν ἐς τὴν Λέσβον καὶ τὰς ἄλλας· ἦσαν δὲ αἱ ξύμπασαι τῶν ξυμμαχίδων νῆες αὐτόθι μιᾶς δέουσαι τεσσαράκοντα.3
Immediately with the spring of the following summer, as the Chians were urging them to dispatch the ships and were afraid lest the Athenians should discover what was being done (for they were all negotiating secretly without their knowledge), the Lacedaemonians dispatched three Spartan men to Corinth, in order that they might drag the ships across the Isthmus from the other sea to that facing Athens as quickly as possible, and order them all to sail to Chios, both those which Agis was preparing for Lesbos and the others; and the total number of the allied ships there was thirty-nine.
- 8.7.1τοῦ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους
In the phrase 'the following summer', the genitive θέρους reflects Thucydides' practice of calling the entire military campaigning season (from spring to autumn) 'summer' (θέρος). Thus, 'spring' (ἦρι) marks the beginning of this summer.
- 8.7.1κρύφα αὐτῶν
The pronoun αὐτῶν refers to 'the Athenians' (οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι) mentioned previously. The adverb κρύφα ('secretly', 'without the knowledge of') takes a genitive object.
- 8.7.1μιᾶς δέουσαι τεσσαράκοντα
Literally 'lacking one of forty', meaning thirty-nine ships. The participle δέουσαι (from δέω, 'to lack') is feminine plural nominative, agreeing with the subject νῆες.