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- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Philip penetrates deep into Laconia, encamping and plundering at Amyclae, Pyrrhus' Camp, and Carnium. He then marches past Gythium to Heleia, thoroughly devastating the surrounding regions.
κειντο1 πρὸς τὸ παρόν. ὁ δὲ Φίλιππος τῇ μὲν πρώτῃ κατεστρατοπέδευσε περὶ τὰς Ἀμύκλας.
[The Lacedaemonians] were for the present in a difficult position. Meanwhile Philip, on the first day, encamped around Amyclae.
αἱ δʼ Ἀμύκλαι καλούμεναι τόπος ἐστὶ τῆς Λακωνικῆς χώρας καλλιδενδρότατος καὶ καλλικαρπότατος, ἀπέχει δὲ τῆς Λακεδαίμονος ὡς εἴκοσι σταδίους.
The place called Amyclae is the most beautifully wooded and most fertile region of the Laconian territory, and is about twenty stades distant from Lacedaemon.
ὑπάρχει δὲ καὶ τέμενος Ἀπόλλωνος ἐν αὐτῷ σχεδὸν ἐπιφανέστατον τῶν κατὰ τὴν Λακωνικὴν ἱερῶν. κεῖται δὲ τῆς πόλεως2 ἐν τοῖς πρὸς θάλατταν κεκλιμένοις μέρεσι.
There is also a sanctuary of Apollo in it, which is perhaps the most famous of the temples in Laconia. It lies in the parts of the city sloping towards the sea.
τῇ δʼ ἐπιούσῃ πορθῶν ἅμα τὴν χώραν εἰς τὸν Πύρρου καλούμενον κατέβη χάρακα. δύο δὲ τὰς ἑξῆς ἡμέρας ἐπιδραμὼν καὶ δῃώσας τοὺς σύνεγγυς τόπους, κατεστρατοπέδευσε περὶ τὸ Κάρνιον, ὅθεν ὁρμήσας ἦγε πρὸς Ἀσίνην· καὶ ποιησάμενος προσβολάς, οὐδέν γε τῶν προύργου3 περαίνων, ἀνέζευξε, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἐπιπορευόμενος ἔφθειρε τὴν χώραν πᾶσαν τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ Κρητικὸν πέλαγος τετραμμένην ἕως Ταινάρου.
On the following day, while plundering the country, he went down to the place called Pyrrhus’ Camp. For the next two days, having overrun and devastated the neighboring districts, he encamped around Carnium. Setting out from there, he led his army toward Asine; and having made assaults on it, but achieving nothing of importance, he struck camp, and for the rest of his march laid waste to all the territory facing the Cretan Sea as far as Taenarum.
μεταβαλόμενος δʼ αὖτις ἐποιεῖτο τὴν πορείαν παρὰ τὸν ναύσταθμον τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων, ὃ καλεῖται μὲν Γύθιον, ἔχει δʼ ἀσφαλῆ λιμένα, τῆς δὲ πόλεως ἀπέχει περὶ διακόσια καὶ τριάκοντα στάδια.
Turning back again, he made his march past the naval station of the Lacedaemonians, which is called Gythium, and has a safe harbor, and is about two hundred and thirty stades distant from the city.
τοῦτο δʼ ἀπολιπὼν κατὰ πορείαν δεξιὸν κατεστρατοπέδευσε περὶ τὴν Ἑλείαν, ἥτις ἐστὶν ὡς πρὸς μέρος θεωρουμένη4 πλείστη καὶ καλλίστη χώρα τῆς Λακωνικῆς.
Leaving this on his right during his march, he encamped around Heleia, which, considered as a single district, is the largest and most beautiful territory in Laconia.
ὅθεν ἀφιεὶς τὰς προνομὰς αὐτόν τε τὸν τόπον τοῦτον πάντα κατεπυρπόλει καὶ διέφθειρε τοὺς ἐν αὐτῷ καρπούς, ἀφικνεῖτο δὲ ταῖς προνομαῖς καὶ πρὸς Ἀκρίας καὶ Λεύκας, ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὴν τῶν Βοιῶν χώραν.
Setting out his foraging parties from there, he burned all this place and destroyed the crops in it, and his foraging parties reached as far as Acriae and Leucae, and even the territory of the Boeates.
- 5.19.1κειντο
The second half of the imperfect verb διέκειντο, continuing from διέ- at the very end of the preceding chunk. Due to a textual division or lacuna, it must be construed together with the prefix to form the verb whose subject is the Lacedaemonians from the previous sentence.
- 5.19.3τῆς πόλεως
A genitive of separation or point of view indicating the starting point of distance or direction: 'in the parts sloping towards the sea from the city (of Sparta)'.
- 5.19.5τῶν προύργου
The crasis form of the prepositional phrase πρὸ ἔργου (useful, effective) functioning as an adjective/adverb προύργου, preceded by the neuter plural genitive article. It acts as a partitive genitive depending on the preceding pronoun οὐδέν with a negative, meaning 'achieving nothing of importance'.
- 5.19.7ὡς πρὸς μέρος θεωρουμένη
The passive participle θεωρουμένη (being considered) combined with ὡς πρὸς μέρος (as a part/district), expressing a qualification: 'when considered as a single district' (in comparison with the rest of Laconia).