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Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War §5.24.1-5.24.2

Signatories to the Alliance and Conclusion of the Ten Years' War

Passage 524 of 917 · Greek

Summary

A list of Lacedaemonian and Athenian envoys who swore to the alliance. With the conclusion of the alliance and the return of the prisoners from Sphacteria, the account of the first ten years of continuous war is concluded.

§5.24.1‘τὸν δὲ ὅρκον ὤμνυον Λακεδαιμονίων μὲν οἵδε, Πλειστοάναξ, Ἆγις, Πλειστόλας, Δαμάγητος, Χίονις, Μεταγένης, Ἄκανθος, Δάιθος, Ἰσχαγόρας, Φιλοχαρίδας, Ζευξίδας, Ἄντιππος, Ἀλκινάδας, Τέλλις, Ἐμπεδίας, Μηνᾶς, Λάφιλος, Ἀθηναίων δὲ Λάμπων, Ἰσθμιόνικος, Λάχης, Νικίας, Εὐθύδημος, Προκλῆς, Πυθόδωρος, Ἅγνων, Μυρτίλος, Θρασυκλῆς, Θεαγένης, Ἀριστοκράτης, Ἰώλκιος, Τιμοκράτης, Λέων, Λάμαχος, Δημοσθένης. ’ §5.24.2αὕτη ἡ ξυμμαχία ἐγένετο μετὰ τὰς σπονδὰς οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον, καὶ τοὺς ἄνδρας τοὺς ἐκ τῆς νήσου ἀπέδοσαν οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις, καὶ τὸ θέρος ἦρχε τοῦ ἑνδεκάτου ἔτους.
'The oath was sworn by the following: on the side of the Lacedaemonians, Pleistoanax, Agis, Pleistolas, Damagetus, Chionis, Metagenes, Acanthus, Daithus, Ischagoras, Philocharidas, Zeuxidas, Antippus, Alcinadas, Tellis, Empedias, Menas, Laphilus; and on the side of the Athenians, Lampon, Isthmionicus, Laches, Nicias, Euthydemus, Procles, Pythodorus, Hagnon, Myrtilus, Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates, Leon, Lamachus, Demosthenes.' This alliance was made not long after the treaty, and the Athenians restored to the Lacedaemonians the men from the island, and the summer of the eleventh year began.
ταῦτα δὲ τὰ δέκα ἔτη ὁ πρῶτος πόλεμος ξυνεχῶς γενόμενος γέγραπται.
The history of these ten years, of the first war which went on continuously, has been written.

Notes

  1. 5.24.1Λακεδαιμονίων — Partitive genitive. It means "Of the Lacedaemonians, the following...", modifying the following list of names. The same structure applies to Ἀθηναίων in the second half of the sentence.
  2. 5.24.2οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον — The dative πολλῷ indicates the degree of difference, modifying the comparative adverb ὕστερον ("later by much, not"), which translates to "not long after".
  3. 5.24.2ὁ πρῶτος πόλεμος ξυνεχῶς γενόμενος γέγραπται — The nominative ὁ πρῶτος πόλεμος is the subject of the passive verb γέγραπται ("has been written"). The aorist participle phrase ξυνεχῶς γενόμενος ("having occurred continuously") modifies πόλεμος, forming the core meaning: "the first war which went on continuously has been written".

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Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War §5.24.1-5.24.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:5.24.1-5.24.2

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