History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Élie-Ami Bétant (Translator). Paris. 1863.
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History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Élie-Ami Bétant (Translator). Paris. 1863.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése (French) (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése. Bétant, Élie-Ami, translator. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1863.)
History of the Peloponnesian War
Ὁρμώμενος —‘making Naupactus his head-quarters.’
ἐπὶ —‘to the coast.’
ταῦτα —‘in these parts.’
ἀργυρολογῶσι —‘collect arrears of tribute.’
μἡ ἐῶσιν —‘prevent.’
Φασηλίδος —a Dorian port of Lycia.
τῆς ἐκεῖθεν —for τῆς ἐκεῖ, by attraction to ἀπό. Cf. c. 84, 5.
Ἀποθνῄσκει .. διέφθειρε —‘fell after losing.’ The aor. is antecedent in time to the hist. pres., but is placed after it, and joined by καὶ as the more important member. Cf. c. 67, 3 ξυλλαμβάνει .. ἐκέλευσεν.