Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Henry Dale (Translator), 1.19.1

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[1] Now the Lacedaemonians did not treat ¹ as tributaries the allies whom they led, but only took care that they should be governed by an oligarchy, in accordance with their own interest; whereas the Athenians had in course of time taken ships from the states [in their league,] except the Chians and Lesbians, and had commanded all to pay a tribute in money. And their own separate resources for this war were greater than when before they had been in their fullest bloom with their entire alliance.

History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Henry Dale (Translator). London. 1851.

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History of the Peloponnesian War (English) (Thucydides. The history of the Peloponnesian War, Volume 1-2. Dale, Henry, translator. London: Heinemann and Henry G. Bohn, 1851-1852.)

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Ἱστορίαι Perseus (Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).) — 1.19.1 focus

[1] καὶ οἱ μὲν Λακεδαιμόνιοι οὐχ ὑποτελεῖς ἔχοντες φόρου τοὺς ξυμμάχους ἡγοῦντο, κατ᾽ ὀλιγαρχίαν δὲ σφίσιν αὐτοῖς μόνον ἐπιτηδείως ὅπως πολιτεύσουσι θεραπεύοντες, Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ ναῦς τε τῶν πόλεων τῷ χρόνῳ παραλαβόντες πλὴν Χίων καὶ Λεσβίων, καὶ χρήματα τοῖς πᾶσι τάξαντες φέρειν. καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῖς ἐς τόνδε τὸν πόλεμον ἡ ἰδία παρασκευὴ μείζων ἢ ὡς τὰ κράτιστά ποτε μετὰ ἀκραιφνοῦς τῆς ξυμμαχίας ἤνθησαν.

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The History of the Grecian War Perseus (Thucydides. The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Hobbes, Thomas. translator. London: John Bohn, 1843.) — 1.19.1 focus

[1] The Lacedaemonians governed not their confederates so as to make them tributaries but only drew them by fair means to embrace the oligarchy convenient to their own policy. But the Athenians, having with time taken into their hands the galleys of all those that stood out (except the Chians and Lesbians), reigned over them and ordained every of them to pay a certain tribute of money. By which means their own particular provision was greater in the beginning of this war than when, in their flourishing time the league between them and the rest of Greece remaining whole, it was at the most.

History of the Peloponnesian War Perseus (Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Crawley, Richard, translator. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1914.) — 1.19.1 focus

[1] The policy of Lacedaemon was not to exact tribute from her allies, but merely to secure their subservience to her interests by establishing oligarchies among them; Athens , on the contrary, had by degrees deprived hers of their ships, and imposed instead contributions in money on all except Chios and Lesbos . Both found their resources for this war separately to exceed the sum of their strength when the alliance flourished intact.

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Wahrmund, Adolf, translator. Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffmann, 1864.) — 1.19 focus

Die Lakedämonier verwalteten die Anführerfchaft, ohne von
ihren Bundesgenossen Steuern zu nehmen, und waren nur darin aus
sich selbst bedacht, daß sie ihnen oligarchische Verfassungen gaben ^).
Die Athener hingegen zogen mit der Zeit die Schiffe der verbündeten
Staaten an sich, nur die der Chier und Lesbier ausgenommen, und
besteuerten alle; und doch ist zu dem gegenwärtigen Kriege ihre
Rüstung noch viel großartiger gewesen, als da sie zur Zeit der unge ¹
schwächten Bundesgenossenschaft in der vollen Blüte ihrer Macht
standen.

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Braun, Theodor, translator. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1917.) — 1.19 focus

Die Lakedämonier benutzten ihre Vormachtstellung nicht
dazu, ihre Bundesgenossen zu besteuern, beschränkten sich viel
mehr darauf, sie überall in ihrem Sinne zur Einführung olig
archischer Verfassungen zu nötigen. Die Athener aber über
nahmen mit der Zeit die Schiffe ihrer Bundesgenossen, mit
Ausnahme der Chier und Lesbier, für eigene Rechnung,
schlugen die Leistung eines jeden zu Gelde an und machten
eine Steuer daraus. Infolgedessen waren Fe in der Lage,
für sich allein so stark gerüstet in diesen Krieg zu gehen, wie
sie das vorher, auch als der Bund noch in voller Blüte stand,
nie gewesen waren.

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponèse First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése, Vol. 1-2. Zévort, Marie Charles, translator. Paris: Charpentier, 1852.) — 1.19 focus

XIX. Les Lacédémoniens n’exigeaient aucun tribut des alliés soumis à leur autorité¹ ; ils s’attachaient seu- lement à leur faire adopter, dans l’intérêt de leur politique personnelle, le gouvernement oligarchique. Les Athéniens, au contraire, s’étaient emparés des vaisseaux de tous les autres États, excepté Chio et Lesbos, et avaient imposé partout un tribut en argent. Aussi, dans la guerre actuelle, purent-ils faire, réduits à leurs seules ressources, des armements plus considérables qu’à l’époque où, entourés de leurs alliés, ils étaient dans tout l’éclat de leur puissance².

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése. Bétant, Élie-Ami, translator. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1863.) — 1.19 focus

Les Lacédémoniens n’exigeaient de leurs alliés aucun tribut; ils se contentaient de veiller à ce qu’ils eussent toujours un gouvernement oligarchique en harmonie avec le leur. Les Athéniens, avec le temps, prirent les vaisseaux des villes alliées, excepté ceux de Chios et de Lesbos, et ils imposèrent à toutes une contribution d’argent¹. C’est là ce qui leur a permis de déployer à eux seuls, dans la présente guerre, des forces plus imposantes qu’à l’époque de leur plus grande prospérité, alors que leur alliance n’avait encore souffert aucune atteinte.

History of the Peloponnesian War First1KGreek (Thucydides, Vol. 1-4. Smith, Charles Foster, translator. London and Cambridge, MA: Heinemann and Harvard University Press, 1919-1923.) — 1.19.1 focus

[1] The Lacedaemonians maintained their hegemony without keeping their allies tributary to them, but took care that these should have an oligarchical form of government conformably to the sole interest of Sparta; the Athenians, on the other hand, maintained theirs by taking over in course of time the ships of the allied cities, with the exception of Chios¹ and Lesbos,² and by imposing on them all a tax of money. And so the individual resources of the Athenians available for this war became greater than those of themselves and their allies when that alliance was still unimpaired and strongest.

Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci First1KGreek (Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci. Haase, Friedrich, translator. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1869.) — 1.19.1 focus

[1] Et Lacedaemonii quidem non tributo sociis imposito principium tenebant, sed officia iis praestantes hoc studebant, ut illi paucorum principatu usi in ipsorum modo commodum reinpublicam administrarent; Athenienses contra et navibus urbium sociarum potiti erant, exceptis Chiis et Lesbiis, et tributa omnibus, quae penderent, ordinaverant. Et proprius ipsorum apparatus ad hoc bellum major exstitit, quam fuerat olim, quum in summo flore essent cum integra societate constituti.

La storia di Tucidide First1KGreek (Thucydides. Della storia di Tucidide volgarizzata libri otto. Anonymous translator. Florence: Tipografia Galileiana, 1835.) — 1.19 focus

I Lacedemoni avevano governo sugli alleati senza tributo, contenti di condurli con maniere officiose a reggersi in oligarchia conforme al governo di Sparta : per opposito gli Ateniesi col tempo si presero le navi delle città alleate, fuorché quelle de’Chii e de' Lesbii, e vi esercitavano impero, con aver di più messo imposte da pagarsi in denaro. Però gli Ateniesi e i Lacedemoni ebbero ambidue per questa guerra apparecchio proprio assai maggiore di quando , non ancor lesa la confederazione, erano le cose loro in istato floridissimo.

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History of the Peloponnesian War

1. The full force of the Greek could not I think be expressed here, (or in the next chapter, τύραννον ὄντα ἀποθανεῖν,) without this change of the participle into the verb, the original verb of the sentence following in a subordinate clause. This is by no means an uncommon construction, and Kühner might have added more numerous, and perhaps more apposite examples to the single one by which he illustrates it, viz. Soph. El. 345,

ἐλοῦ γε θάτερ᾽,

ἢ φρονεῖν κακῶς, ἢ τῶν φίλων φρονοῦσα μὴ μνήμην ἔχειν,

i. e. ἦ τῶν φίλων μὴ μνήμην ἔχουσα ( εὖ) φρονεῖνHis rule is as follows:

Although the Greeks make great use of the participle to express the accidental accompaniments of an action, and thus distinguish it from that action itself, yet this is sometimes reversed; the principal action is expressed in the participle as a mere accompaniment, while the accompaniment assumes the character of the principal verb of the sentence.

Gr. Gr. Jelf. 705. 2. In Matthiae there is not any notice of the construction that I am aware of. The same participle, ἔχοντες, is used in precisely a similar manner, chap. 144, τὰς δὲ πόλεις ὅτι αὐτονόμους ἀφήσομεν, εἰ καὶ αὐτονόμους ἔχοντες ἐσπεισάμεθα:

if we treated them as independent when we made the treaty

and by Xenophon, Anab. I. 8. 22. καὶ πάντες δὲ οἱ τῶν βαρβάρων ἄρχοντες μέσου ἔχοντες τὸ αὑτῶν ἡγοῦντο:

occupied the centre—when they led them on.

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 1.19.1

Henry Dale (Translator)

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