- Source
- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:6.30.1-6.30.6
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
The placement of the allied cavalry and infantry is described, along with the adjustment of their quarters' depth to accommodate their numbers, resulting in the formation of a cross-street called 'the Fifth'.
ἀπὸ τῶν ἁστάτων πεντήκοντα πάλιν διαλείποντες πόδας τοὺς τῶν συμμάχων ἱππεῖς ἀντίους παρεμβάλλουσι τούτοις, ποιούμενοι τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς εὐθείας καὶ λήγοντες ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτήν.
Having left again a distance of fifty feet from the hastati, they place the cavalry of the allies opposite to them, making their start from the same straight line and ending at the same.
ἔστι δὲ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν συμμάχων, ὡς ἐπάνω προεῖπα, τὸ μὲν τῶν πεζῶν πάρισον τοῖς Ῥωμαϊκοῖς στρατοπέδοις, λεῖπον τοῖς ἐπιλέκτοις, τὸ δὲ τῶν ἱππέων διπλάσιον, ἀφῃρημένου καὶ τούτων τοῦ τρίτου μέρους1 εἰς τοὺς ἐπιλέκτους.
The number of the allies, as I said above, is nearly equal to the Roman legions in infantry, being less by the extraordinary troops, but double in cavalry, a third part of these too having been taken for the extraordinary troops.
διὸ καὶ τὸ βάθος αὔξοντες τούτοις2 πρὸς λόγον ἐν τοῖς στρατοπεδευτικοῖς σχήμασι, πειρῶνται κατὰ τὸ μῆκος ἐξισοῦν τοῖς τῶν Ῥωμαίων στρατοπέδοις.
Therefore, by increasing their depth proportionally in the camp layouts, they endeavor to make them equal in length to the Roman legions.
ἀποτελεσθεισῶν δὲ τῶν ἁπασῶν πέντε διόδων, αὖθις εἰς τοὔμπαλιν ἀπεστραμμένας ὁμοίως τοῖς ἱππεῦσι τιθέασι τὰς τῶν συμμαχικῶν πεζῶν σημαίας, αὔξοντες τὸ βάθος πρὸς λόγον, βλεπούσας δὲ πρὸς τὸν χάρακα καὶ πρὸς τὰς ἐκ τῶν πλαγίων ἐπιφανείας ἑκατέρας.
When all five passages have been completed, they place the companies of the allied infantry turned in the opposite direction, in the same manner as the cavalry, increasing their depth proportionally, and making them face toward the rampart and toward each of the two sides.
καθʼ ἑκάστην δὲ σημαίαν τὰς πρώτας ἀφʼ ἑκατέρου τοῦ μέρους σκηνὰς οἱ ταξίαρχοι λαμβάνουσιν. ἅμα δὲ τὸν προειρημένον τρόπον παρεμβάλλοντες καθʼ ἕκαστον μέρος τὸν ἕκτον οὐλαμὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ πέμπτου πεντήκοντα πόδας ἀφιστᾶσι,3 παραπλησίως δὲ καὶ τὰς τῶν πεζῶν τάξεις, ὥστε γίνεσθαι καὶ ταύτην ἄλλην διὰ μέσων τῶν στρατοπέδων δίοδον,4 ἐπικάρσιον μὲν πρὸς τὰς ῥύμας, παράλληλον δὲ ταῖς τῶν χιλιάρχων σκηναῖς, ἣν καλοῦσι πέμπτην διὰ τὸ παρὰ τὰ πέμπτα τάγματα παρήκειν.
In each company, the centurions take the first tents from each side. At the same time, encamping each part in the aforementioned manner, they separate the sixth troop fifty feet from the fifth, and in a similar way the companies of infantry also, so that this also becomes another passage through the middle of the camp, perpendicular to the streets, but parallel to the tents of the tribunes, which they call “the Fifth” because it runs along the fifth divisions.
- 6.30.2ἀφῃρημένου καὶ τούτων τοῦ τρίτου μέρους
Genitive absolute construction with the perfect passive participle ἀφῃρημένου and its subject τοῦ τρίτου μέρους. τούτων functions as a partitive genitive referring to the allied cavalry.
- 6.30.3τὸ βάθος αὔξοντες τούτοις
The dative pronoun τούτοις refers to the allied cavalry, functioning as a dative of interest or reference ('for them' / 'in their case').
- 6.30.5τὸν ἕκτον οὐλαμὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ πέμπτου πεντήκοντα πόδας ἀφιστᾶσι
The verb ἀφιστᾶσι is used transitively (causatively) here to mean 'to place at a distance' or 'to separate', taking τὸν ἕκτον οὐλαμόν as its direct object.
- 6.30.6ὥστε γίνεσθαι καὶ ταύτην ἄλλην διὰ μέσων τῶν στρατοπέδων δίοδον
Result clause introduced by ὥστε with the infinitive γίνεσθαι. The demonstrative pronoun ταύτην modifies the feminine noun δίοδον.