§7τοὺς δὲ στρατηγοὺς αὖ πάλιν ἐνθένδε παριόντας σκοπῶμεν, ὧν παρερχομένων ὡς ἀληθῶς
εὐφημεῖν χρὴ κἀξίστασθαι
τοὺς ἀπράκτους καὶ ἀπολιτεύτους καὶ ἀστρατεύτους,
ὅστις
ἄτολμος πρὸς ἔργα τοιαῦτα
καὶ γνώμῃν μὴ καθαρεύει,
μηδὲ Μιλτιάδου τοῦ μηδοφόνου μηδὲ τοῦ περσοκτόνου Θεμιστοκλέους χειρὸς
βακχεῖʼ ἐτελέσθη.
And on the other hand, let us observe the generals approaching from this side, at whose passing in truth "silence must be kept, and one must stand aside," namely, those who are inactive, non-political, and draft-dodging, "whoever is cowardly toward such deeds and is not pure in mind," nor has been initiated into the mysteries of the hand of Miltiades the Mede-slayer or of Themistocles the Persian-killer.
Ἀρήιος ὁ κῶμος οὗτος ἐκ γῆς ἅμα φάλαγξι καὶ στόλοις ἐκ θαλάττης καὶ μεμειγμένοις σκύλοις καὶ τροπαίοις βεβριθώς.
This procession is of Ares, heavy from the land with phalanxes and from the sea with fleets, and with mingled spoils and trophies.
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κλῦθʼ Ἀλαλά, Πολέμου θύγατερ,
ἐγχέων προοίμιον, ᾇ θύεται
ἄνδρες τὸν ἱρόθυτον θάνατον,
"
ὡς ὁ Θηβαῖος Ἐπαμεινώνδας εἶπεν, ὑπὲρ πατρίδος καὶ τάφων καὶ ἱερῶν ἐπιδιδόντες ἑαυτοὺς τοῖς καλλίστοις καὶ λαμπροτάτοις ἀγῶσιν.
"Hear, Alala, daughter of War, prelude of spears, for whom men sacrifice themselves to a sacred death, "as the Theban Epaminondas said, offering themselves for fatherland, tombs, and temples in the finest and most glorious contests.
ὧν τὰς Νίκας ὁρᾶν μοι δοκῶ προσερχομένας, οὐ βοῦν ἔπαθλον ἑλκούσας ἢ τράγον, οὐδʼ ἀνεστεμμένας κιττῷ καὶ Διονυσιακῆς τρυγὸς ὀδωδυίας;
Of these, I seem to see the Victories approaching; do they drag an ox or a goat as a prize, or are they crowned with ivy and smelling of Dionysian new wine?
ἀλλʼ ὅλαι μὲν πόλεις αὐτῶν εἰσι καὶ νῆσοι καὶ ἤπειροι, καὶ ναοὶ χιλιοτάλαντοι καὶ δήμων ἀποικισμοὶ μυρίανδροι, τροπαίοις δὲ παντοδαποῖς ἀναστέφονται καὶ λαφύροις· ὧν ἀγάλματα καὶ σύμβολα παρθενῶνες ἑκατόμπεδοι, νότια τείχη, νεώσοικοι, προπύλαια, Χερρόνησος, Ἀμφίπολις.
No, rather, whole cities are theirs, and islands, and continents, and temples worth a thousand talents, and colonies of ten thousand men, and they are crowned with all kinds of trophies and spoils; whose statues and symbols are the hundred-foot Parthenons, the southern walls, the ship-sheds, the Propylaea, the Chersonese, and Amphipolis.
Μαραθὼν τὴν Μιλτιάδου Νίκην προπέμπει, καὶ Σαλαμὶς τὴν Θεμιστοκλέους, χιλίων σκαφῶν ναυαγίοις ἐπιβεβηκυῖαν.
Marathon sends forth the victory of Miltiades, and Salamis that of Themistocles, treading upon the wrecks of a thousand ships.
φέρει δʼ ἡ μὲν Κίμωνος τριήρεις ἑκατὸν Φοινίσσας ἀπʼ Εὐρυμέδοντος, ἡ δὲ Δημοσθένους καὶ Κλέωνος ἀπὸ Σφακτηρίας τὴν Βρασίδου ἀσπίδʼ αἰχμάλωτον καὶ δεδεμένους Σπαρτιάτας.
And that of Cimon brings a hundred Phoenician triremes from Eurymedon, while that of Demosthenes and Cleon brings from Sphacteria the captured shield of Brasidas and the bound Spartans.
τειχίζει δὲ τὴν πόλιν ἡ Κόνωνος, ἡ δὲ Θρασυβούλου κατάγει τὸν δῆμον ἀπὸ φυλῆς ἐλεύθερον, αἱ δὲ Ἀλκιβιάδου περὶ Σικελίαν ὀλισθοῦσαν τὴν πόλιν ἐγείρουσιν· ἐκ δὲ τῶν Νείλεω καὶ Ἀνδρόκλου περὶ Λυδίαν καὶ Καρίαν ἀγώνων Ἰωνίαν ἀνισταμένην ἐπεῖδεν ἡ Ἑλλάς.
The victory of Conon walls the city, and that of Thrasybulus leads the people back from Phyle free, and those of Alcibiades raise up the city which was slipping around Sicily; and from the contests of Neileus and Androclus around Lydia and Caria, Greece looked upon Ionia rising again.
τῶν δʼ ἄλλων ἑκάστης ἂν πύθῃ τί τῇ πόλει γέγονεν ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀγαθόν, ἡ μὲν ἐρεῖ Λέσβον, ἡ δὲ Σάμον, ἡ δὲ Κύπρον, ἡ δὲ Πόντον Εὔξεινον, ἡ δὲ πεντακοσίας τριήρεις, ἡ δὲ μυρία τάλαντα, προῖκα τῆς δόξης καὶ τῶν τροπαίων.
If you ask each of the others what good has come to the city from it, one will say Lesbos, another Samos, another Cyprus, another the Euxine Pontus, another five hundred triremes, and another ten thousand talents, as a dowry of glory and trophies.
ταῦθʼ ἡ πόλις ἑορτάζει καὶ ὑπὲρ τούτων θύει τοῖς θεοῖς, οὐκ ἐπὶ ταῖς Αἰσχύλου νίκαις ἢ Σοφοκλέους· οὐδʼ ὅτε Καρκίνος Ἀερόπῃ εὐτύχει ἢ Ἕκτορι Ἀστυδάμας, ἀλλʼ ἕκτῃ μὲν ἱσταμένου Βοηδρομιῶνος ἐσέτι νῦν τὴν ἐν Μαραθῶνι νίκην ἡ πόλις ἑορτάζει· ἕκτῃ δʼ ἐπὶ δέκα τοῦ μηνὸς οἰνοχοεῖται τῆς Χαβρίου περὶ Νάξον ἐπινίκια ναυμαχίας· τῇ δὲ δωδεκάτῃ χαριστήρια ἔθυον ἐλευθερίας· ἐν ἐκείνῃ γὰρ οἱ ἀπὸ Φυλῆς κατῆλθον. τρίτῃ δʼ ἱσταμένου τὴν ἐν Πλαταιαῖς μάχην ἐνίκων. τὴν δὲ ἕκτην ἐπὶ δέκα τοῦ Μουνιχιῶνος Ἀρτέμιδι καθιέρωσαν, ἐν ᾗ τοῖς Ἕλλησι περὶ Σαλαμῖνα νικῶσιν ἐπέλαμψεν ἡ θεὸς πανσέληνος.
It is for these things that the city celebrates festivals and sacrifices to the gods, not for the victories of Aeschylus or Sophocles; nor when Carcinus was successful with Aerope, or Astydamas with Hector; but on the sixth day of the rising Boedromion, even now, the city celebrates the victory at Marathon; and on the sixteenth of the month, wine is poured for Chabrias' victory in the naval battle of Naxos; and on the twelfth, they sacrificed thank-offerings of freedom, for on that day those from Phyle returned; and on the third of the rising month, they won the battle at Plataea; and they consecrated the sixteenth of Munychion to Artemis, on which the goddess shone with a full moon upon the Greeks winning at Salamis.
τὴν δὲ δωδεκάτην τοῦ Σκιρροφοριῶνος ἱερωτέραν ἐποίησεν ὁ Μαντινειακὸς ἀγών, ἀπὸ τῶν ἄλλων συμμάχων ἐκβιασθέντων καὶ τραπέντων, μόνοι τὸ καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς νικήσαντες ἔστησαν τρόπαιον ἀπὸ τῶν νικώντων πολεμίων.
And the twelfth of Scirophorion was made more sacred by the battle of Mantinea, because when the other allies were forced back and routed, they alone won in their own sector and set up a trophy over the victorious enemies.
ταῦτα τὴν πόλιν ᾖρεν εἰς δόξαν, ταῦτα εἰς μέγεθος· ἐπὶ τούτοις Πίνδαρος
"ἔρεισμα τῆς Ἑλλάδος"
προσεῖπε τὰς Ἀθήνας, οὐχ ὅτι ταῖς Φρυνίχου τραγῳδίαις καὶ Θέσπιδος ὤρθουν τοὺς Ἕλληνας, ἀλλʼ ὅτι πρῶτον, ὥς φησιν αὐτός, ἐπʼ Ἀρτεμισίῳ
"παῖδες Ἀθαναίων ἐβάλοντο φαεννὰν κρηπῖδʼ ἐλευθερίας· "
ἐπί τε Σαλαμῖνι καὶ Μυκάλῃ καὶ Πλαταιαῖς ὥσπερ ἀδαμαντίνοις στηρίξαντες τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τῆς Ἑλλάδος παρέδοσαν τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνθρώποις.
These things raised the city to glory, these to greatness; on account of these, Pindar addressed Athens as "bulwark of Greece," not because they set the Greeks upright with the tragedies of Phrynichus and Thespis, but because first, as he himself says, at Artemisium "the sons of the Athenians laid the shining foundation of freedom;" and having secured the freedom of Greece at Salamis, Mycale, and Plataea as if with adamantine supports, they handed it down to other men.