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Diodorus Siculus · Bibliotheca Historica §12.7.1

Subjugation of Euboea and the Thirty Years' Peace

Passage 101 of 723 · Greek

Summary

While Athens is weakened by the defeat at Coronea and many cities revolt, Pericles suppresses the rebellion in Euboea, and a thirty-year treaty is concluded.

§12.7.1ἐπʼ ἄρχοντος δʼ Ἀθήνησι Καλλιμάχου Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν κατέστησαν ὑπάτους Σέξτον Κοΐντιον Τριγέμινον.
When Callimachus was archon in Athens, the Romans established Sextus Quintius Trigeminus as consuls.
ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα τεταπεινωμένων τῶν Ἀθηναίων διὰ τὴν ἐν Βοιωτίᾳ περὶ Κορώνειαν ἧτταν, ἀφίσταντο πολλαὶ τῶν πόλεων ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀθηναίων.
During their term, since the Athenians had been humbled throughout Greece because of their defeat near Coronea in Boeotia, many of the cities revolted from the Athenians.
μάλιστα δὲ τῶν κατοικούντων τὴν Εὔβοιαν νεωτεριζόντων, Περικλῆς αἱρεθεὶς στρατηγὸς ἐστράτευσεν ἐπὶ τὴν Εὔβοιαν μετὰ δυνάμεως ἀξιολόγου, καὶ τὴν μὲν πόλιν τῶν Ἑστιαιῶν ἑλὼν κατὰ κράτος ἐξῴκισε τοὺς Ἑστιαιεῖς ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος, τὰς δʼ ἄλλας καταπληξάμενος ἠνάγκασε πάλιν πειθαρχεῖν Ἀθηναίοις.
Especially because the inhabitants of Euboea were revolting, Pericles, having been elected general, campaigned against Euboea with a noteworthy force; and after capturing the city of the Hestiaeans by storm, he expelled the Hestiaeans from their homeland, and having terrified the other cities, he forced them to obey the Athenians again.
σπονδὰς δʼ ἐποίησαν τριακονταετεῖς, Καλλίου καὶ Χάρητος συνθεμένων καὶ τὴν εἰρήνην βεβαιωσάντων.
And they made a thirty-year treaty, with Callias and Chares negotiating and confirming the peace.

Notes

  1. 12.7.1ὑπάτους Σέξτον Κοΐντιον Τριγέμινον — While the predicate accusative 'consuls' (ὑπάτους) is plural, the object 'Sextus Quintius Trigeminus' is in the singular. This discrepancy suggests either that the name of his historical colleague was lost in transmission or that it was an error by the author, but syntactically the singular name functions as the direct object.
  2. 12.7.1τῶν κατοικούντων τὴν Εὔβοιαν νεωτεριζόντων — A genitive absolute construction where the articular participle phrase (τῶν κατοικούντων τὴν Εὔβοιαν, 'the inhabitants of Euboea') serves as the logical subject of the participle νεωτεριζόντων ('revolting').
  3. 12.7.1Καλλίου καὶ Χάρητος συνθεμένων καὶ τὴν εἰρήνην βεβαιωσάντων — A genitive absolute construction with Callias and Chares as the logical subjects, describing the circumstances of negotiating and securing the thirty-year peace treaty between Athens and Sparta.

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Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica §12.7.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.humanitext-grc4:12.7.1

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