- 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-grc2:8.77.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
While the soldiers at Samos boosted their morale and prepared for war, the ten ambassadors sent by the Four Hundred of Athens received news of the situation while at Delos and remained there.
τοιαῦτα ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἐκκλησιάσαντες1 καὶ παραθαρσύναντες σφᾶς αὐτοὺς καὶ τὰ τοῦ πολέμου παρεσκευάζοντο οὐδὲν ἧσσον. οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν τετρακοσίων πεμφθέντες ἐς τὴν Σάμον [οἱ δέκα πρεσβευταὶ] ὡς ταῦτα ἐν τῇ Δήλῳ ἤδη ὄντες2 ᾐσθάνοντο, ἡσύχαζον αὐτοῦ.
Having held assemblies among themselves and encouraged one another in this manner, they prepared for the war no less diligently. And those who had been sent by the Four Hundred to Samos [the ten ambassadors], when they heard of these things being already in Delos, remained quiet there.
- 8.77.1τοιαῦτα ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἐκκλησιάσαντες
The neuter plural accusative pronoun τοιαῦτα (such things) refers to the speeches and deliberations in the assembly described in the previous chapter (ch. 76), and serves as the object of both participles ἐκκλησιάσαντες and παραθαρσύναντες.
- 8.77.1ἐν τῇ Δήλῳ ἤδη ὄντες
The nominative plural participle ὄντες, modifying the main subject οἱ πεμφθέντες, is embedded within the temporal ὡς clause, indicating that they were already in Delos when they heard the news.