- Source
- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:33.3.1-33.3.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
Upon hearing from the returned ambassadors that the release of the detainees was nearly accomplished, the Achaeans, filled with hope, dispatch another embassy to Rome.
ὅτι τῶν ἐκ τῆς Ῥώμης πρεσβευτῶν ἀνακαμψάντων εἰς τὴν Ἀχαΐαν καὶ διασαφούντων ὅτι παρʼ ὀλίγον ἔλθοι τὰ πράγματα τοῦ πάντας ἐπανελθεῖν1 τοὺς κατεχομένους, εὐέλπιδες γενόμενοι καὶ μετεωρισθέντες οἱ πολλοὶ πάλιν ἐξ αὐτῆς2 ἔπεμπον Τηλεκλέα καὶ τὸν Μεγαλοπολίτην Ἀναξίδαμον. καὶ τὰ μὲν κατὰ Πελοπόννησον ἐπὶ τούτων ἦν.
That, when the ambassadors from Rome had returned to Achaea and made it clear that matters had come within a little of all the detained returning, the multitude, becoming hopeful and excited, again immediately sent Telecles and Anaxidamus of Megalopolis. And such was the state of affairs in the Peloponnese.
- 33.3.1παρʼ ὀλίγον ἔλθοι τὰ πράγματα τοῦ ... ἐπανελθεῖν
The expression παρ' ὀλίγον ἦλθε (cf. §33.1.4) is construed with the genitive of the articular infinitive τοῦ + infinitive to mean 'matters came within a little of [doing something]'. The optative ἔλθοι is an oblique optative in the ὅτι-clause after a historical verb of reporting.
- 33.3.2ἐξ αὐτῆς
An adverbial idiom consisting of the preposition ἐκ and the feminine genitive singular of αὐτή, meaning 'immediately' or 'on the spot' in response to the preceding news. It is understood as an ellipsis of a feminine noun such as ὥρας (hour) or τῆς ὁδοῦ (from the very journey).