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Diodorus Siculus · Bibliotheca Historica §12.22.1-12.22.2

Fall of the Sybarites and Recovery of Euboea by Athens

Passage 116 of 723 · Greek

Summary

During the archonship of Lysimachides in Athens, the Romans appoint new consuls, the Sybarites settle briefly by the Traeis River before being destroyed by the Brettians, and the Athenians under Pericles recover Euboea and establish a colony in Hestiaea.

§12.22.1ἐπʼ ἄρχοντος γὰρ Ἀθήνησι Λυσιμαχίδου Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν ὑπάτους κατέστησαν Τίτον Μενήνιον καὶ Πόπλιον Σήστιον Καπετωλῖνον.
When Lysimachides was archon in Athens, the Romans appointed Titus Menenius and Publius Sestius Capitolinus as consuls.
ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων διαφεύγοντες τὸν ἐν τῇ στάσει κίνδυνον Συβαρῖται περὶ τὸν Τράεντα ποταμὸν κατῴκησαν.
During their term of office, the Sybarites, fleeing the danger of the civil strife, settled around the Traeis River.
καὶ χρόνον μέν τινα διέμειναν, ἔπειθʼ ὑπὸ Βρεττίων ἐκβληθέντες ἀνῃρέθησαν.
And for a certain time they remained there, but afterwards they were expelled by the Brettians and destroyed.
§12.22.2κατὰ δὲ τὴν Ἑλλάδα Ἀθηναῖοι τὴν Εὔβοιαν ἀνακτησάμενοι καὶ τοὺς Ἑστιαιεῖς ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἐκβαλόντες ἰδίαν ἀποικίαν εἰς αὐτὴν ἐξέπεμψαν Περικλέους στρατηγοῦντος, χιλίους δὲ οἰκήτορας ἐκπέμψαντες τήν τε πόλιν καὶ τὴν χώραν κατεκληρούχησαν.
In Greece, the Athenians, having recovered Euboea and expelled the Hestiaeans from their city, sent out a colony of their own to it under the generalship of Pericles; and having dispatched a thousand settlers, they portioned out both the city and the land in allotments.

Notes

  1. 12.22.1ἐπʼ ἄρχοντος γὰρ Ἀθήνησι Λυσιμαχίδου — A genitive absolute construction. The preposition ἐπί with the genitive signifies 'in the time of.' The particle γάρ marks the transition to the chronological narrative promised in the preceding chapter (12.21.3).
  2. 12.22.2Περικλέους στρατηγοῦντος — A genitive absolute construction indicating the circumstances under which the Athenian recovery and colonization of Euboea took place, highlighting the leadership or command of Pericles.
  3. 12.22.2κατεκληρούχησαν — The verb κατακληρουχέω means to distribute land by lot or to colonize as cleruchs. It refers here to the historical practice of Athenian cleruchy, where the native population was expelled and land was allocated to Athenian citizens.

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Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica §12.22.1-12.22.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.humanitext-grc4:12.22.1-12.22.2

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