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Thucydides · History of the Peloponnesian War §8.77.1

Envoys of the Four Hundred Wait at Delos

Passage 885 of 917 · Greek

Summary

While the soldiers at Samos boosted their morale and prepared for war, the ten ambassadors sent by the Four Hundred of Athens received news of the situation while at Delos and remained there.

§8.77.1τοιαῦτα ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἐκκλησιάσαντες καὶ παραθαρσύναντες σφᾶς αὐτοὺς καὶ τὰ τοῦ πολέμου παρεσκευάζοντο οὐδὲν ἧσσον.
Having held assemblies among themselves and encouraged one another in this manner, they prepared for the war no less diligently.
οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν τετρακοσίων πεμφθέντες ἐς τὴν Σάμον [οἱ δέκα πρεσβευταὶ] ὡς ταῦτα ἐν τῇ Δήλῳ ἤδη ὄντες ᾐσθάνοντο, ἡσύχαζον αὐτοῦ.
And those who had been sent by the Four Hundred to Samos, when they heard of these things being already in Delos, remained quiet there.

Notes

  1. 8.77.1τοιαῦτα ἐν ἀλλήλοις ἐκκλησιάσαντες — The neuter plural accusative pronoun `τοιαῦτα` (such things) refers to the speeches and deliberations in the assembly described in the previous chapter (ch. 76), and serves as the object of both participles `ἐκκλησιάσαντες` and `παραθαρσύναντες`.
  2. 8.77.1ἐν τῇ Δήλῳ ἤδη ὄντες — The nominative plural participle `ὄντες`, modifying the main subject `οἱ πεμφθέντες`, is embedded within the temporal `ὡς` clause, indicating that they were already in Delos when they heard the news.

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Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War §8.77.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:8.77.1

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