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Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War §3.99.1

Athenian Landing in Locris and Capture of a Guard-Post

Passage 348 of 917 · Greek

Summary

About the same time, the Athenian forces around Sicily land in Locris, defeat the Locrian reinforcements, and capture a guard-post on the Halex River.

§3.99.1κατὰ δὲ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους καὶ οἱ περὶ Σικελίαν Ἀθηναῖοι πλεύσαντες ἐς τὴν Λοκρίδα ἐν ἀποβάσει τέ τινι τοὺς προσβοηθήσαντας Λοκρῶν ἐκράτησαν καὶ περιπόλιον αἱροῦσιν ὃ ἦν ἐπὶ τῷ Ἄληκι ποταμῷ.
About the same time, the Athenians around Sicily also, having sailed to Locris, defeated in a certain landing those of the Locrians who came to help, and captured a guard-post which was on the river Halex.

Notes

  1. §3.99.1Λοκρῶν — A partitive genitive meaning "of the Locrians," modifying the preceding substantivized participle phrase τοὺς προσβοηθήσαντας ("those who came to help"). The "Locris" (Λοκρίδα) mentioned here refers to the territory of Locri Epizephyrii in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia), rather than Locris in central Greece.
  2. §3.99.1περιπόλιον — A noun denoting a "guard-post," "outpost," or "patrol fort" established near borders or coasts. It is cognate with the verb περιπολέω ("to patrol" or "to go round").

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Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War §3.99.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:3.99.1

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