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Theophrastus · Fragments §135.1

Remarks on Lysander and Alcibiades

Passage 140 of 196 · Greek

Summary

Reports Eteocles the Lacedaemonian's remark on Lysander, noting that Theophrastus records Archestratus making the exact same comment about Alcibiades.

§135.1Fr. 135 Εὐδοκίμησεν Ἐτεοκλῆς ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιος εἰπὼν ὡς οὐκ ἂν Ἑλλὰς δύο Λυσάνδρους ἤνεγκε.
Fr. 135 The Lacedaemonian Eteocles won renown by saying that Greece would not have borne two Lysanders.
Τὸ δʼ αὐτὸ τοῦτο καὶ περὶ Ἀλκιβιάδου φησὶ Θ. εἰπεῖν Ἀρχέστρατον.
And Theophrastus says that Archestratus said this very same thing also about Alcibiades.

Notes

  1. §135.1οὐκ ἂν ἤνεγκε — An apodosis of a past contrafactual condition consisting of ἄν and the aorist indicative (ἤνεγκε, 3rd person singular aorist of φέρω), meaning "would not have borne." The protasis (such as "if there had been two Lysanders") is implicitly understood from the context.
  2. §135.1εἰπεῖν Ἀρχέστρατον — An accusative and infinitive construction governed by the main verb φησὶ (whose subject is the abbreviated Θ., representing Theophrastus), where Ἀρχέστρατον acts as the subject of the infinitive εἰπεῖν.

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Theophrastus, Fragments §135.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg010x09.humanitext-grc1:135.1

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