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Polybius · The Histories §30.29.1-30.29.7

Public Hatred for Callicrates and His Faction

Passage 1171 of 1311 · Greek

Summary

After the replies from Rome were clarified, public hatred spread against the pro-Roman faction of Callicrates in the Peloponnese, illustrated by people avoiding the same bathwater, jeering at festivals, and children's insults.

§30.29.1ὅτι κατὰ τὴν Πελοπόννησον, παραγενομένων τῶν πρεσβευτῶν καὶ διασαφούντων τὰ κατὰ τὰς ἀποκρίσεις, οὐκέτι θόρυβος ἦν, ἀλλʼ ὀργὴ καὶ μῖσος ἐκφανὲς πρὸς τοὺς περὶ τὸν Καλλικράτην. — §30.29.2ὅτι τοῦ περὶ Καλλικράτην μίσους καὶ Ἀνδρωνίδαν καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς τοὺς ὁμογνώμονας τούτων οὕτως ἄν τις τεκμήραιτο.
ὅτι In the Peloponnese, when the ambassadors arrived and made clear the details of the replies, there was no longer any confusion, but an open anger and hatred towards Callicrates and his party. — ὅτι One might estimate the hatred felt towards Callicrates, Andronidas, and the rest who shared their views from the following.
§30.29.3τῆς γὰρ τῶν Ἀντιγονείων πανηγύρεως ἐν τῷ Σικυῶνι συντελουμένης, καὶ τῶν βαλανείων ἁπάντων ἐχόντων τάς τε κοινὰς μάκτρας καὶ πυέλους ταύταις παρακειμένας, εἰς ἃς οἱ κομψότεροι τῶν ἀνθρώπων εἰώθασι κατʼ ἰδίαν ἐμβαίνειν, §30.29.4εἰς ταύτας ὅτε τις καθείη τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἀνδρωνίδαν καὶ Καλλικράτην, οὐδεὶς ἐτόλμα τῶν ἐφεστώτων ἔτι καθιέναι, πρὶν ἢ τὸν βαλανείτην τὸ μὲν ὑπάρχον ὕδωρ ἀφεῖναι πᾶν, ἕτερον δὲ καθαρὸν ἐγχέαι.
For when the festival of the Antigoneia was being celebrated in Sicyon, and all the bathhouses had both the public basins and, lying adjacent to them, the private tubs in which the more refined people were accustomed to bathe individually, whenever any of the party of Andronidas and Callicrates let themselves down into these, no one else of those present dared to go in after them, until the bath-attendant had let out all the water there, and poured in other clean water.
§30.29.5τοῦτο δʼ ἐποίουν, ὑπολαμβάνοντες ὡσανεὶ μιαίνεσθαι καθιέντες εἰς ταὐτὸ τοῖς προειρημένοις ὕδωρ.
They did this because they imagined that they were defiled, as it were, if they let themselves down into the same water as the aforementioned men.
§30.29.6τοὺς δὲ συριγμοὺς τοὺς ἐν ταῖς κοιναῖς πανηγύρεσι τῶν Ἑλλήνων καὶ τοὺς χλευασμούς, ὅτε τις ἐπιβάλοιτο κηρύττειν τινὰ τῶν προειρημένων, οὐδʼ ἂν ἐξηγήσαιτο ῥᾳδίως οὐδείς.
As for the hissing and jeering in the general festivals of the Greeks, whenever anyone attempted to make a public proclamation of any of the aforementioned men, no one could easily describe it.
§30.29.7ἐθάρρει δὲ καὶ τὰ παιδάρια κατὰ τὰς ὁδοὺς ἐκ τῶν διδασκαλείων ἐπανάγοντα κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοὺς προδότας ἀποκαλεῖν.
Even the young children, as they returned from school along the streets, had the courage to call them traitors to their faces.
τοιαύτη τις ὑπέδραμε προσκοπὴ καὶ μῖσος κατὰ τῶν προειρημένων.
Such was the aversion and hatred that crept in against the aforementioned men.

Notes

  1. §30.29.2τοῦ ... μίσους — Genitive case governed by the verb τεκμήραιτο ('estimate', 'infer', or 'find proof of'), indicating the object or proof of hatred that one might infer.
  2. §30.29.5καθιέντες — Circumstantial participle expressing a conditional sense ('if they let themselves down'), agreeing in nominative plural with the implied subject of the infinitive μιαίνεσθαι.
  3. §30.29.6τοὺς δὲ συριγμοὺς ... καὶ τοὺς χλευασμούς — Accusative noun phrase placed at the beginning of the sentence for emphasis, serving as the direct object of the main verb ἐξηγήσαιτο. It is separated from the subject οὐδείς and the verb by the intervening ὅτε clause.

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Polybius, The Histories §30.29.1-30.29.7. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:30.29.1-30.29.7

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