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Diodorus Siculus · Bibliotheca Historica §14.92.1-14.92.4

Argos annexes Corinth and Amyntas recovers Macedon

Passage 386 of 723 · Greek

Summary

Argos appropriates Corinth, and the Athenian Iphicrates attempts to intervene but steps down. Meanwhile, King Amyntas of Macedon is expelled by the Illyrians but later recovers his throne with Thessalian aid.

§14.92.1τούτων δὲ πραχθέντων Ἀργεῖοι μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων πανδημεὶ στρατεύσαντες εἰς Κόρινθον τήν τʼ ἀκρόπολιν κατελάβοντο καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐξιδιοποιησάμενοι τὴν Κορινθίων χώραν Ἀργείαν ἐποίησαν.
When these things had been accomplished, the Argives, marching with all their forces to Corinth, seized the acropolis, and having appropriated the city for themselves, made the Corinthian territory Argive.
§14.92.2ἐπεβάλετο δὲ καὶ Ἰφικράτης ὁ Ἀθηναῖος καταλαβέσθαι τὴν πόλιν, ἐπιτήδειον οὖσαν εἰς τὴν τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἡγεμονίαν· τοῦ δὲ δήμου κωλύσαντος οὗτος μὲν ἀπέθετο τὴν ἀρχήν, οἱ δʼ Ἀθηναῖοι Χαβρίαν ἀντʼ αὐτοῦ στρατηγὸν εἰς τὴν Κόρινθον ἐξέπεμψαν.
Iphicrates the Athenian also attempted to seize the city, which was well situated for the hegemony of Greece; but when the people prevented him, he laid down his command, and the Athenians sent out Chabrias as general to Corinth in his place.
§14.92.3κατὰ δὲ τὴν Μακεδονίαν Ἀμύντας ὁ Φιλίππου πατὴρ Ἰλλυριῶν ἐμβαλόντων εἰς Μακεδονίαν ἐξέπιπτεν ἐκ τῆς χώρας· ἀπογνοὺς δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν Ὀλυνθίοις μὲν τὴν σύνεγγυς χώραν ἐδωρήσατο, αὐτὸς δὲ τότε μὲν ἀπέβαλε τὴν βασιλείαν, μετʼ ὀλίγον δὲ χρόνον ὑπὸ Θετταλῶν καταχθεὶς ἀνεκτήσατο τὴν ἀρχήν, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη εἴκοσι τέτταρα.
In Macedonia, Amyntas, the father of Philip, was expelled from the country when the Illyrians invaded Macedonia; despairing of his rule, he presented the neighboring territory to the Olynthians, and though at that time he lost his kingdom, after a short time he was restored by the Thessalians, recovered his rule, and reigned for twenty-four years.
§14.92.4ἔνιοι δέ φασι μετὰ τὴν ἔκπτωσιν τὴν Ἀμύντου διετῆ χρόνον Ἀργαῖον βασιλεῦσαι τῶν Μακεδόνων, καὶ τότε τὸν Ἀμύνταν ἀνακτήσασθαι τὴν βασιλείαν.
But some say that after the expulsion of Amyntas, Argaeus ruled the Macedonians for a period of two years, and that it was then that Amyntas recovered his kingdom.

Notes

  1. 14.92.2ἐπιτήδειον οὖσαν — A participle agreeing with the preceding accusative noun τὴν πόλιν, explaining the reason or attendant circumstance ('being suitable' or 'since it was well situated') for Iphicrates' attempt.
  2. 14.92.3ἀπογνοὺς δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν — The aorist active participle of ἀπογιγνώσκω, taking the accusative τὴν ἀρχήν, meaning 'despairing of [recovering] his rule.'
  3. 14.92.3καταχθείς — The aorist passive participle of κατάγω, commonly used in classical Greek in political contexts to mean 'being restored from exile' or 'recalled to his country.'

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Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica §14.92.1-14.92.4. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.humanitext-grc4:14.92.1-14.92.4

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