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Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War §4.49.1

Capture of Anactorium by Athens and the Acarnanians

Passage 414 of 917 · Greek

Summary

At the close of the summer, the Athenians from Naupactus and the Acarnanians captured the Corinthian city of Anactorium through treachery, and the Acarnanians settled the place. Thus ended the summer.

§4.49.1καὶ οἱ ἐν τῇ Ναυπάκτῳ Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ Ἀκαρνᾶνες ἅμα τελευτῶντος τοῦ θέρους στρατευσάμενοι Ἀνακτόριον Κορινθίων πόλιν, ἣ κεῖται ἐπὶ τῷ στόματι τοῦ Ἀμπρακικοῦ κόλπου, ἔλαβον προδοσίᾳ· καὶ ἐκπέμψαντες [Κορινθίους ]αὐτοὶ Ἀκαρνᾶνες οἰκήτορας ἀπὸ πάντων ἔσχον τὸ χωρίον.
At the end of the same summer, the Athenians at Naupactus and the Acarnanians made an expedition against Anactorium, a Corinthian city which lies at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf, and took it by treachery; and having expelled [the Corinthians], the Acarnanians themselves occupied the place, sending settlers from all their districts.
καὶ τὸ θέρος ἐτελεύτα.
And the summer ended.

Notes

  1. §4.49.1ἅμα τελευτῶντος τοῦ θέρους — The adverb ἅμα functions prepositionally with the genitive absolute (τελευτῶντος τοῦ θέρους), meaning "at the very end of the summer" or "coinciding with the end of the summer."
  2. §4.49.1ἀπὸ πάντων — The noun is omitted; from the context of Ἀκαρνᾶνες, it implies "from all [the Acarnanian] districts or towns."

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Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War §4.49.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:4.49.1

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