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Diodorus Siculus · Bibliotheca Historica §12.44.1-12.44.3

Campaign in Locris and Expulsion of the Aeginetans

Passage 138 of 723 · Greek

Summary

The Athenian general Cleopompos campaigns in Locris and fortifies the island of Atalante. Athens expels the Aeginetans to send colonists, while Pericles ravages the territory of Megara.

§12.44.1μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Ἀθηναῖοι στρατηγὸν προχειρισάμενοι Κλεόπομπον ἐξαπέστειλαν μετὰ νεῶν τριάκοντα, προστάξαντες τήν τε Εὔβοιαν παραφυλάττειν καὶ Λοκροῖς πολεμεῖν.
this, the Athenians, having appointed Cleopompos as general, sent him out with thirty ships, ordering him to guard Euboea and to make war on the Locrians.
ὁ δʼ ἐκπλεύσας τήν τε παραθαλάττιον τῆς Λοκρίδος ἐδῄωσε καὶ πόλιν Θρόνιον ἐξεπολιόρκησε, τοῖς δʼ ἀντιταξαμένοις τῶν Λοκρῶν συνάψας μάχην ἐνίκησε περὶ πόλιν Ἀλόπην.
Having sailed out, he ravaged the coastal region of Locris, took the city of Thronium by siege, and having joined battle with those of the Locrians who opposed him, won a victory near the city of Alope.
ἔπειτα τὴν προκειμένην τῆς Λοκρίδος νῆσον, ὀνομαζομένην Ἀταλάντην, ἐπιτείχισμα τῆς Λοκρίδος κατεσκεύασε, πολεμῶν πρὸς τοὺς ἐγχωρίους. §12.44.2Ἀθηναῖοι δʼ ἐγκαλοῦντες Αἰγινήταις ὡς συνηργηκόσι Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀνέστησαν αὐτοὺς ἐκ τῆς πόλεως, ἐκ δὲ τῶν πολιτῶν οἰκήτορας ἐκπέμψαντες κατεκληρούχησαν τήν τε Αἴγιναν καὶ τὴν χώραν. §12.44.3Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ τοῖς ἐκπεπτωκόσιν Αἰγινήταις ἔδωκαν οἰκεῖν τὰς καλουμένας Θυρέας διὰ τὸ καὶ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους δεδωκέναι τοῖς ἐκ Μεσσήνης ἐκβληθεῖσι κατοικεῖν Ναύπακτον.
Then, fighting against the inhabitants, he established the island lying off Locris, called Atalante, as a stronghold against Locris. Athenians, accusing the Aeginetans of having cooperated with the Lacedaemonians, expelled them from their city, and having sent out colonists from among their own citizens, allotted Aegina and its territory. Lacedaemonians gave the expelled Aeginetans the place called Thyreae to inhabit, because the Athenians also had given Naupactus as a dwelling place to those expelled from Messene.
Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ Περικλέα μετὰ δυνάμεως ἐξέπεμψαν πολεμήσοντα τοῖς Μεγαρεῦσιν.
The Athenians sent out Pericles with a force to make war on the Megarians.
οὗτος δὲ πορθήσας τὴν χώραν καὶ τὰς κτήσεις αὐτῶν λυμηνάμενος μετὰ πολλῆς ὠφελείας ἐπανῆλθεν εἰς τὰς Ἀθήνας.
He, having ravaged their territory and ruined their possessions, returned to Athens with much booty.

Notes

  1. §12.44.1ἐπιτείχισμα — An object complement (the second accusative in a double accusative construction) modifying the preceding accusative noun τὴν προκειμένην τῆς Λοκρίδος νῆσον, meaning 'established [the island] as a stronghold'.
  2. §12.44.2ὡς συνηργηκόσι — The conjunction ὡς combined with the perfect dative participle συνηργηκόσι (agreeing with Αἰγινήταις) expresses the subjective reason or grounds for accusation alleged by the Athenians ('on the grounds that they had cooperated').
  3. §12.44.3διὰ τὸ καὶ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους δεδωκέναι — A causal construction where the preposition διά governs the articular infinitive in the perfect tense τὸ δεδωκέναι. The subject accusative of the infinitive is τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, explaining the reason for the action of the Lacedaemonians.

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Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica §12.44.1-12.44.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.humanitext-grc4:12.44.1-12.44.3

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