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Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War §1.94.1-1.94.2

Allied Expedition under Pausanias to Cyprus and Byzantium

Passage 94 of 917 · Greek

Summary

The allied Greek forces, led by Pausanias son of Cleombrotus, launch campaigns against Cyprus and Byzantium to capture them from the Medes.

§1.94.1Παυσανίας δὲ ὁ Κλεομβρότου ἐκ Λακεδαίμονος στρατηγὸς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐξεπέμφθη μετὰ εἴκοσι νεῶν ἀπὸ Πελοποννήσου· ξυνέπλεον δὲ καὶ Ἀθηναῖοι τριάκοντα ναυσὶ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ξυμμάχων πλῆθος.
Meanwhile Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, was sent out from Lacedaemon as general of the Hellenes with twenty ships from the Peloponnese; and the Athenians also sailed with them with thirty ships, and a multitude of the other allies.
§1.94.2καὶ ἐστράτευσαν ἐς Κύπρον καὶ αὐτῆς τὰ πολλὰ κατεστρέψαντο, καὶ ὕστερον ἐς Βυζάντιον Μήδων ἐχόντων, καὶ ἐξεπολιόρκησαν ἐν τῇδε τῇ ἡγεμονίᾳ.
And they made an expedition to Cyprus and subdued most of it, and afterwards to Byzantium, which the Medes held, and besieged and captured it under this leadership.

Notes

  1. §1.94.1στρατηγὸς τῶν Ἑλλήνων — The genitive τῶν Ἑλλήνων is an objective genitive ('general of the Hellenes'), indicating Pausanias's supreme command over the allied Greek forces in the joint campaign following the Persian War.
  2. §1.94.2Μήδων ἐχόντων — A genitive absolute construction with the present participle ἐχόντων (logical subject: Μήδων). Here, the participle ἔχω is used transitively to mean 'occupying' or 'holding', with Byzantium understood as its object.
  3. §1.94.2ἐν τῇδε τῇ ἡγεμονίᾳ — 'Under this leadership' (or hegemony), referring to the period during which Pausanias held the supreme command of the allied forces, or when Sparta held the leadership.

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Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War §1.94.1-1.94.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:1.94.1-1.94.2

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