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[1] THE following summer, the truce for a year ¹ continued till the Pythian games, and then ended. During the suspension of arms, the Athenians expelled the Delians from their island, thinking that they had been consecrated when in a state of impurity from some crime of ancient date; and, moreover, that this had been the deficiency in their former purification of it; in which case I have before explained that they considered themselves to have performed it rightly by taking up the coffins of the dead. The Delians found a residence at Atramyttium in Asia, given to them by Pharnaces, as each of them arrived there.

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).) — 5.1.1 focus

[1] τοῦ δ’ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους αἱ μὲν ἐνιαύσιοι σπονδαὶ διελέλυντο μέχρι Πυθίων, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐκεχειρίᾳ Ἀθηναῖοι Δηλίους ἀνέστησαν ἐκ Δήλου, ἡγησάμενοι κατὰ παλαιάν τινα αἰτίαν οὐ καθαροὺς ὄντας ἱερῶσθαι, καὶ ἅμα ἐλλιπὲς σφίσιν εἶναι τοῦτο τῆς καθάρσεως, ᾗ πρότερόν μοι δεδήλωται ὡς ἀνελόντες τὰς θήκας τῶν τεθνεώτων ὀρθῶς ἐνόμισαν ποιῆσαι. καὶ οἱ μὲν Δήλιοι Ἀτραμύττιον Φαρνάκου δόντος αὐτοῖς ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ ᾤκησαν, οὕτως ὡς ἕκαστος ὥρμητο.

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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.) — 5.1.1 focus

[1] The summer following, the truce for a year, which was to last till the Pythian holidays, expired. During this truce, the Athenians removed the Delians out of Delos, because [though they were consecrated, yet] for a certain crime committed of old they esteemed them polluted persons; because also they thought there wanted this part to make perfect the purgation of the island, in the purging whereof, as I declared before, they thought they did well to take up the sepulchres of the dead. These Delians seated themselves afterwards, every one as he came, in Adramyttium in Asia, a town given unto them by Pharnaces.

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.) — 5.1.1 focus

[1] The next summer the truce for a year ended, after lasting until the Pythian games. During the armistice the Athenians expelled the Delians from Delos , concluding that they must have been polluted by some old offense at the time of their consecration, and that this had been the omission in the previous purification of the island, which as I have related, had been thought to have been duly accomplished by the removal of the graves of the dead. The Delians had Atramyttium in Asia given them by Pharnaces, and settled there as they removed from Delos .

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Wahrmund, Adolf, translator. Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffmann, 1864.) — 5.1 focus

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Im folgenden Sommer war der auf ein Jahr abgeschlos- ¹
sene Vertrag erloshcen und galt nur noch für die Tage des Pythischen
Festes'). Noch während des Waffenstillstandes hatten die Athener
die Delier von ihrer Insel abziehen heißen, weil sie dieselben irgend
einer alten Schuld wegen nicht für rein genug hielten, dem Gotte
geweiht zu bleiben. Dieß, dachten sie, fehle noch zu jener
Reinigung, bei der sie mit Wegschaffung der Todtenfärge genug gethan zu
haben glaubten, wie ich früher erzählt habe 2). Die Delier nun
siedelten sich, sowie Einer nach dem Andern von dort ausgebrochen
war, in Atramyttion in Asien an, welches ihnen Pharnakes
angewiesen hatte.

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Braun, Theodor, translator. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1917.) — 5.1 focus

Im nächsten Sommer lief der einjährige Waffenstillstand
ab, und es war wieder Krieg bis zu den Pythischen
Spielen. Noch während des Waffenstillstandes hatten die
Athener die Bewohner von Delos zur Auswanderung ge
zwungen. Sie glaubten nämlich, einer alten Schuld wegen wären
diese nicht rein genug für die Heilige Insel, und die Reinigung,
die sie, wie oben erzählt, früher ihrer Meinung nach durch
Wegschaffung der Särge der Verstorbenen richtig vorgenommen
hatten, sei insofern doch nicht genügend gewesen. Den Deliern
bot Pharnakes Atramyttion in Asien zum Wohnsitz an, und
soweit sie dazu geneigt waren, ließen sie sich dort nieder.

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponèse First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése, Vol. 1-2. Zévort, Marie Charles, translator. Paris: Charpentier, 1852.) — 5.1 focus

I. L’été suivant, le terme de la trêve d’un an avait été fixé aux jeux pythiens¹. Pendant l’armistice, les Athéniens expulsèrent de Délos les habitants de l’île : ils s’imaginaient qu’une faute déjà ancienne les ayant rendus impurs et indignes d’habiter une terre sacrée, ce complément avait manqué à la purification dont j’ai parlé plus haut², lorsque, par l’enlèvement des tombeaux des morts, ils crurent n’avoir rien laissé à faire³. Les Déliens s’établirent à Atramytion⁴, ville d’Asie, que leur donna Pharnace, et où ils furent admis à mesure qu’ils se présentèrent.

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése. Bétant, Élie-Ami, translator. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1863.) — 5.1 focus

L’été suivant ¹, la trêve d’une année expirait aux jeux Pythiques². Elle durait encore lorsque les Athéniens expulsèrent de leur île les habitants de Délos, comme coupables d’un ancien délit qui, suivant eux, entachait leur caractère sacré. D’ailleurs ils trouvaient que ce point manquait encore à la purification mentionnée ci-dessus³, et pour laquelle ils avaient cru devoir enlever les tombes des morts. Les Déliens se retirèrent en Asie, à Atramyttion, que Pharnacès leur donna ⁴, et où s’établirent ceux d’entre eux qui le voulurent.

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.) — 5.1.1 focus

[1] The next summer the one-year's truce con-¹ tinued till, and ended with, the Pythian games.² During the suspension of arms the Athenians expelled the Delians from Delos, thinking that they had been consecrated³ while in a state of pollution from some ancient crime, and besides, that they themselves had been responsible for this defect in the purification, in which, as I have before related, they believed they had acted rightly in removing the coffins of the dead. And the Delians settled, according as each man chose,⁴ in Atramytteum in Asia, which had been given them by Pharnaces.

Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci First1KGreek (Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci. Haase, Friedrich, translator. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1869.) — 5.1.1 focus

[1] Insequente autem aestate induciae in spatium annuum ad Pythia usque factae solutae erant, ac per illud induciarum tempus Athenienses e Delo Delios summo ver unt, quod existimarunt, eos quum ob quoddam vetus piaculi crimen polluti essent, deo esse consecratos, et simul hanc sibi deesse partem expiationis, qua a me superius est declaratum ut sublatis defunctorum monumentis se recte fecisse censuerint. Atque Delii quidem Atramyttium in Asia situm, quod Pharnaces iis dedit, incoluerunt, prout quisque se eo conferre voluerat. ^

La storia di Tucidide First1KGreek (Thucydides. Della storia di Tucidide volgarizzata libri otto. Anonymous translator. Florence: Tipografia Galileiana, 1835.) — 5.1 focus

A.L sopravvenire dell’estate fallirono le tregue fermate per un anno da durare fino alle feste Pitie. In quel tanto gli Ateniesi cacciarono i Delii da Deio stimando che servissero al Nume non ancora mondi da un antico delitto, e che però fosse stata manchevole l’espiazione di quell’isola; la quale, come innanzi ho mostrato, credettero eseguita regolarmente col levare le arche de’ morti. E Farnace diede ai Delii Atramitteo nell’Asia , ove essi si stanziarono secondo l’ordine con cui ciascuno vi era andato.

Notes on the current edition

History of the Peloponnesian War

1. For the arguments with which Arnold establishes, as I think, this interpretation of the passage, see his Appendix. All the later German editors adopt, with little or no variety, the view of Heilmann, Böckh, and others, who suppose it to mean, that

in the following summer the truce was broken, and war renewed until the time of the Pythian games.

In addition to what Arnold has observed respecting the unsuitableness of the pluperfect tense to such a mode of interpretation, it may be remarked that Thucydides applies the term τὴν ἐκεχειρίαν to the year's truce in the last chapter but one of the preceding book; and therefore it is much more natural that the same armistice should be intended by the same term in this and the following chapters. It seems evident too that there is an opposition expressed by the μέν here and the δέ in the first line of the next chapter:— the one sentence stating how long the truce continued, viz. until the Pythian games, and the other, what military measure was first executed after its expiration; while the chief event which occurred during its continuance is mentioned parenthetically between the two. Nor, again, does it seem at all like the style of Thucydides to allude so cursorily, and by anticipation, to the Pythian games, as the cause which put a final stop to hostilities, and to make no subsequent mention of them at all in what would be the natural place for doing so; but to lead his readers to conclude that the proposals for peace originated solely in the difficulties of both the great belligerent powers, and their natural anxiety to be released from them; which is the sum and substance of his history from chap. 13 to 17.

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 5.1.1

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