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« L’assemblée des Lacédémoniens arrête de traiter avec les Argiens aux conditions indiquées ci-après ¹.

« Les Argiens rendront aux Orchoméniens leurs enfants, aux Ménaliens leurs hommes, aux Lacédémoniens les hommes qui sont A Mantinée ².

« Ils sortiront du territoire d’Épidaure et détruiront les forts qu’ils y ont construits. Si les Athéniens n'évacuent pas Épidaure, ils seront ennemis d’Argos et de Lacédémone, ainsi que des alliés de ces deux États.

« Les Lacédémoniens rendront à toutes les villes ceux de leurs esclaves qu’ils peuvent avoir ³.

« En ce qui concerne le sacrifice du dieu⁴, les Argiens seront libres de déférer le serment aux Ëpidauriens ou de le prêter eux-mèmes ⁵.

« Les villes du Péloponèse, grandes o;u petites, seront toutes indépendantes, conformément aux usages de nos pères.

« Si quelque peuple étranger au Péloponèse y entre à main armée, on se concertera pour le repousser, de la manière qui paraîtra la plus juste aux Péloponésiens.

« Tous les alliés de Lacédémone hors du Péloponèse seront sur le même pied que les alliés des Lacédémoniens et des Argiens, c’est-à-dire maîtres de leur propre territoire.

« Les alliés recevront notification du présent traité, pour avoir la faculté d’y souscrire. S’ils ont à faire quelque proposition, ils enverront à Lacédémone. »

History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Élie-Ami Bétant (Translator). Paris. 1863.

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

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Ἱστορίαι Perseus (Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).) — 5.77.1 focus

[1] ‘καττάδε δοκεῖ τᾷ ἐκκλησίᾳ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ξυμβαλέσθαι ποττὼς Ἀργείως, ἀποδιδόντας τὼς παῖδας τοῖς Ὀρχομενίοις καὶ τὼς ἄνδρας τοῖς Μαιναλίοις, καὶ τὼς ἄνδρας τὼς ἐν Μαντινείᾳ τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀποδιδόντας, καὶ ἐξ Ἐπιδαύρω ἐκβῶντας καὶ τὸ τεῖχος ἀναιρίοντας.

[2] αἰ δέ κα μὴ εἴκωντι τοὶ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐξ Ἐπιδαύρω, πολεμίως ἦμεν τοῖς Ἀργείοις καὶ τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις καὶ τοῖς τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ξυμμάχοις καὶ τοῖς τῶν Ἀργείων ξυμμάχοις.

[3] καὶ αἴ τινα τοὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι παῖδα ἔχοντι, ἀποδόμεν ταῖς πολίεσσι πάσαις.

[4] περὶ δὲ τῶ σιῶ σύματος, αἰ μὲν λῆν, τοῖς Ἐπιδαυρίοις ὅρκον δόμεν, 〈αἰ〉 δέ, αὐτὼς ὀμόσαι.

[5] τὰς δὲ πόλιας τὰς ἐν Πελοποννάσῳ, καὶ μικρὰς καὶ μεγάλας, αὐτονόμως ἦμεν πάσας καττὰ πάτρια.

[6] αἰ δέ κα τῶν ἐκτὸς Πελοποννάσω τις ἐπὶ τὰν Πελοπόννασον γᾶν ἴῃ ἐπὶ κακῷ, ἀλεξέμεναι ἁμόθι βωλευσαμένως, ὅπᾳ κα δικαιότατα δοκῇ τοῖς Πελοποννασίοις.

[7] ὅσσοι δ’ ἐκτὸς Πελοποννάσω τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ξύμμαχοί ἐντι, ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ ἐσσίονται ἐν τῷπερ καὶ τοὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, καὶ τοὶ τῶν Ἀργείων ξύμμαχοι ἐν τ〈ῷ αὐτῷ ἐσσίονται ἐν τῷπερ καὶ τοὶ Ἀργεῖοι〉, τὰν αὐτῶν ἔχοντες.

[8] ἐπιδείξαντας δὲ τοῖς ξυμμάχοις ξυμβαλέσθαι, αἴ κα αὐτοῖς δοκῇ. αἰ δέ τι δοκῇ τοῖς ξυμμάχοις, οἴκαδ’ ἀπιάλλην.’

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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.) — 5.77.1 focus

[1] "It seemeth good to the council of the Lacedaemonians to accord with the Argives on these articles: "The Argives shall redeliver unto the Orchomenians their children, and unto the Maenalians their men, and unto the Lacedaemonians those men that are at Mantineia; they shall withdraw their soldiers from Epidaurus and raze the fortification there.

[2] "And if the Athenians depart not from Epidaurus [likewise], they shall be held as enemies both to the Argives and to the Lacedaemonians and also to the confederates of them both.

[3] "If the Lacedaemonians have any men of theirs in custody, they shall deliver them every one to his own city.

[4] "And for so much as concerneth the god, the Argives shall accept composition with the Epidaurians, upon an oath which they shall swear, touching that controversy;

[5] and the Argives shall give the form of that oath. "All the cities of Peloponnesus, both small and great, shall be free according to their patrial laws.

[6] "If any without Peloponnesus shall enter into it to do it harm, the Argives shall come forth to defend the same, in such sort as in a common council shall by the Peloponnesians be thought reasonable.

[7] "The confederates of the Lacedaemonians without Peloponnesus shall have the same conditions which the confederates of the Argives and of the Lacedaemonians have, every one holding his own. "This composition is to hold from the time that they shall both parts have showed the same to their confederates and obtained their consent.

[8] And if it shall seem good to either part to add or alter anything, their confederates shall be sent unto and made acquainted therewith.

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.) — 5.77.1 focus

[1] The assembly of the Lacedaemonians agrees to treat with the Argives upon the terms following—
1. The Argives shall restore to the Orchomenians their children, and to the Moenalians their men, and shall restore the men they have in Mantinea to the Lacedaemonians.

[2] 2. They shall evacuate Epidaurus , and raze the fortification there. If the Athenians refuse to withdraw from Epidaurus , they shall be declared enemies of the Argives and of the Lacedaemonians, and of the allies of the Lacedaemonians and the allies of the Argives.

[3] 3. If the Lacedaemonians have any children in their custody, they shall restore them every one to his city.

[4] 4. As to the offering to the god, the Argives, if they wish, shall impose an oath upon the Epidaurians, but, if not, they shall swear it themselves.

[5] 5. All the cities in Peloponnese , both small and great, shall be independent according to the customs of their country.

[6] 6. If any of the powers outside Peloponnese invade Peloponnesian territory, the parties contracting shall unite to repel them, on such terms as they may agree upon, as being most fair for the Peloponnesians.

[7] 7. All allies of the Lacedaemonians outside Peloponnese shall be on the same footing as the Lacedaemonians, and the allies of the Argives shall be on the same footing as the Argives, being left in enjoyment of their own possessions.

[8] 8. This treaty shall be shown to the allies, and shall be concluded, if they approve: if the allies think fit, they may send the treaty to be considered at home.

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Wahrmund, Adolf, translator. Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffmann, 1864.) — 5.77 focus

- „Unter diesen Bedingungen beschließt die Volksversamm-'
lung der Lakedämonier Frieden'zu machen mit.denIrgivern."

„Sie sollen den Orchomeniern ihre Kinder und den Mäna-' ¹²
liern die Männer zurückgeben, und auch den Lakedämoniern die
Männer, die in Mantinea sind. Und von Epidauros sollen sie abziehen
und die Verschanzung niederreißen."

„Wenn aber die Athener von Epidauros nicht weichen wollen,
so sollen sie der Argiver.und der Lakedämonier und der
Lakedämonischen Bundesgenossen-und der-Argivischen Bundesgenossen Feinde
sein."

„Wenn die Lakedämonier einen Mann in Händen-haben, so
sollen sie ihn herausgeben, einer Stadt wie der andern."

„In Betreff des Opfers für den Gott wollen'sie den
Epidauriern die Eidesleistung zuschieben, aber es auch gestatten, wenn die
Argiver den Eid schwören wollen." - ^ ^ '

„Die Städte im Peloponnes, kleine wie große, sollen alle frei
sein, nach Weise der Väter." ... , -

„Wenn Einer von außerhalb des Peloponnes gegen
Peloponnefisches Gebiet zieht in feindlicher Absicht, so sollen sie zu
gemeinsamer Abwehr sich berathen, wie es den Peloponnesiern am besten
scheint."

„So Viele außerhalb des Peloponnes der Lakedämonier
Bundesgenossen sind, sollen ebenso gehalten werden wie die, welche den
Lakedämoniern und Argivern verbündet sind, und sollen an denselben
Dingen Theil haben."

„Dieß wird man den Bundesgenossen mittheilen, damit sie
beitreten können, wenn es ihnen gut dünkt. Wenn aber die
Bundesgenossen anderer Meinung sind, so soll man sie gehen lassen."

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Braun, Theodor, translator. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1917.) — 5.77 focus

„Die Versammlung der Lakedämonier erklärt sich zum
Frieden mit den Argeiern bereit, und zwar unter folgenden
Bedingungen: Die Argeier haben den Orchomeniern die Kinder,
den Mainaliern die Männer, den Lakedämoniern die in Man
tinea befindlichen Männer herauszugeben, von Epidauros ab
zuziehen nnd die Schanze dort abzutragen. Wenn die Athener
sich weigern, von Epidauros abzuziehen, sind sie von den
Argeiern und den Lakedämoniern sowie von den Bundes
genossen der Lakedämonier und den Bundesgenossen der Argeier
als Feinde zu behandeln. Auch die Lakedämonier haben allen
Städten die etwa in ihren Händen befindlichen Kinder heraus
zugeben. Wegen des dem Gotte gebührenden Opfers mögen
die Argeier nach ihrem Belieben den Epidauriern den Eid
zuschieben oder ihn selbst leisten. Die Städte im Peloponnes,
große und kleine, sollen alle wie von alters her unabhängig
sein. Sollte eine außerpeloponnesische Macht in feindlicher
Absicht in den Peloponnes einfallen, so haben sich beide über
die zu ergreifenden Abwehrmaßregeln miteinander zu ver
ständigen und dabei auch die Wünsche der übrigen Peloponnesier
tunlichst zu berücksichtigen. Die Bundesgenossen der Lake
dämonier außerhalb des Peloponnes sollen wie die Bundes
genossen der Argeier behandelt werden und ihre Besitzungen
behalten. Der Vertrag ist den Bundesgesandten vorzulegen,
um sich damit, wenn sie dazu bereit, gleich einverstanden zu
erklären, sonst aber, wenn ihnen das lieber ist, ihn ihren Re
gierungen zuzuschicken."e

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponèse First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése, Vol. 1-2. Zévort, Marie Charles, translator. Paris: Charpentier, 1852.) — 5.77 focus

LXXVII. « L’assemblée des Lacédémoniens a décidé qu’un accord serait fait avec les Argiens aux condi-· tions suivantes : Les Argiens rendront¹ aux Orchoméniens leurs enfants, aux Ménaliens les hommes qu’ils leur ont pris, aux Lacédémoniens les prisonniers de Mantinée²; ils sortiront d’Épidaure et en raseront les fortifications.

« Si les Athéniens n’évacuent pas Épidaure, ils seront ennemis des Argiens et des Lacédémoniens, des alliés des Lacédémoniens et de ceux des Argiens.

« Les Lacédémoniens rendront à toutes les villes les enfants qu’ils peuvent avoir.

« Pour ce qui est du sacrifice au dieu³, le serment sera déféré aux Épidauriens, et les Argiens les admettront à le prononcer.

« Les villes du Péloponnèse, grandes et petites, seront toutes libres, conformément à ce qui est anciennement établi.

« Si quelque peuple étranger au Péloponnèse y pénètre avec des intentions hostiles, on se concertera pour le repousser, faisant en tout ce qui paraîtra le plus juste aux Péloponnésiens.

« Tous les alliés des Lacédémoniens hors du Péloponnèse seront dans la même situation que les alliés des Lacédémoniens et des Argiens dans le Péloponnèse; la jouissance de leurs droits leur est garantie.

On communiquera ce traité aux alliés pour qu’ils y adhèrent s’il leur agrée; si les alliés ont quelques ⁴⁵⁶ observations à présenter, ils les transmettront à Lacédémone. »

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.) — 5.77.1 focus

[1] "It seems good to the assembly of the Lacedaemonians to make an agreement with the Argives on the following terms:
1. "The Argives shall restore to the Orchomenians¹ their children and to the Maenalians² their men, and to the Lacedaemonians³ the men they deposited at Mantinea.
2.

[2] "They shall evacuate Epidaurus and demolish the fortification there. And if the Athenians do not withdraw from Epidaurus, they shall be enemies to the Argives and Lacedaemonians, and to the allies of the Lacedaemonians and to the allies of the Argives.
3.

[3] "If the Lacedaemonians have in custody any children, they shall restore these in all cases to their cities.
4.

[4] "As to the offering to the god,⁴ if they wish they shall impose an oath upon the Epidaurians;

[5] but if not, they shall swear it themselves.
5. "The cities in the Peloponnesus, both small and great, shall all be independent according to their hereditary usages.
6.

[6] "If anyone from outside the Peloponnesus comes against Peloponnesian territory with evil intent, they shall repel the invader, taking counsel together, in whatever way shall seem to the Peloponnesians most just.
7.

[7] "Such states as are allies of the Lacedaemonians outside of the Peloponnesus shall be on the same footing as are the other allies of the Lacedaemonians and of the Argives, all retaining their own territory.
8.

[8] “They shall communicate this agreement to their allies and make terms with them, if it seem best. But if the allies prefer, they may send the treaty home for consideration.”⁵

History of the Peloponnesian War First1KGreek (Thucydides. The history of the Peloponnesian War, Volume 1-2. Dale, Henry, translator. London: Heinemann and Henry G. Bohn, 1851-1852.) — 5.77.1 focus

[1]

It seems good to the assembly of the Lacedaemonians to enter into agreement with the Argives on the following conditions:—That they shall restore their children to the Orchomenians, their men to the Maenalians, and the men deposited at Mantinea to the Lacedaemonians. That they shall evacuate Epidaurus, and demolish their fortification there:

[2]

and that if the Athenians do not withdraw from Epidaurus, they shall be declared enemies to the Argives and Lacedaemonians, with the allies of both those states.—

[3]

That if the Lacedaemonians have any children in their custody, they shall restore them to all the states.—

[4]

That with respect to the offering to the god, ¹ the Epidaurians shall be at liberty to take an oath on the subject, and that the Argives shall allow them to do so.—

[5]

That the states in the Peloponnese, both small and great, shall be all independent, according to the institutions of their fathers.—

[6]

That if any of those beyond the Peloponnese come against the Peloponnesian territory with evil intent, they shall repel the invader ² by common counsel, on such terms as shall seem most just for the Peloponnesians.—

[7]

That whatever people out of the Peloponnese are allies of the Lacedaemonians, they shall stand on the same footing as the allies of the Lacedaemonians and of the Argives, retaining their own possessions.— ³

[8]

That the contracting parties shall show these conditions to the allies, and enter into agreement with them, if they seem satisfactory to them; but that if any thing else seem good to the allies, they shall send them away home.

Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci First1KGreek (Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci. Haase, Friedrich, translator. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1869.) — 5.77.1 focus

[1] « Placet concilio Lacedaemoniorum, his conditionibus compositionem facere cum Argivis, ut pueros Orchomeniis reddant et viros Maenaliis, et illos, qui sunt Mantineae, Lacedaemoniis, utque ex agro Epidaurio excedant, et munitionem evertant.

[2] Si vero Athenienses Epidauro non excedant, pro hostibus habeantur ab Argivis et Lacedaemoniis, et a Lacedaemoniorum sociis et ab Argivorum sociis.

[3] Et si quem puerum Lacedaemonii penes se habent, eum suae civitati restituant.

[4] De dei autem sacrificio esse velle Epidauriis jusjurandum; praeire vero ipsos formulam, ex qua jurent.

[5] Item ut tam parvae quam magnae civitates, quae sunt in Peloponneso, omnes liberae sint, patriis institutis utentes.

[6] Si quis vero illorum, qui sunt extra Peloponnesum, in agrum Peloponnesiacum maleficii causa veniat, ad arcendam vim hostilem accurrant initis una consiliis, ea ratione, quae Peloponnesiis rectissima videbitur.

[7] Quotquot autem extra Peloponnesum sunt socii Lacedaemoniorum, eadem conditione erunt, qua sunt et Lacedaemoniorum et Argivorum socii, suum agrum obtinentes.

[8] Ubi vero haec sociis ostenderint, si assen-tiantur, compositionem faciant. Quod si quid aliud visum fuerit sociis, domum eos dimittant. »

La storia di Tucidide First1KGreek (Thucydides. Della storia di Tucidide volgarizzata libri otto. Anonymous translator. Florence: Tipografia Galileiana, 1835.) — 5.77 focus

«Piace al consiglio de’Lacedemoni di convenire con gli Argivi a questi patti ; che gli Argivi rendano i niulli agli Orcomenii, gli uomini ai Menalii, e quelli detenuti in Mantinea ai Lacedemoni ; che escano da Epidauro e ne distruggano le fortificazioni ; che qualora gli Ateniesi non escano da Epidauro , si tengano per nemici degli Ar- givi, de' Lacedemoni, e degli alleati di questi e di quelli. Se i Lacedemoni ritengano qualche fanciullo, lo rendano a tutte le città. Quanto alla vittima negata al Nume volere i Lacedemoni che se ne proponga giuramento agli Epidaurii, i quali giureranno di offrirla. Le città del Peloponneso , piccole e grandi, sieno tutte indipendenti secondo le patrie usanze« Entrando alcuno di fuori con male intenzioni nel Peloponneso, gli Argivi si accorderanno unanimemente a respingerlo nel modo che paia il più giusto ai Peloponnesi. Per gli alleati dei Lacedemoni fuori del Peloponneso si avranno gli stessi riguardi, che per quelli dei Lacedemoni e degli Argivi, ritenendo le cose loro. Il concordato si concluderà dopo avere esposte queste condizioni agli alleati, quando ad essi piacciano : se iu qualche punto pensino diversamente, ne sarà spedito avviso a Sparta ».

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History of the Peloponnesian War

Le texte de ce traité et du suivant (chap. lxxix) est en dialecte dorien, tel qu’on le parlait dans le Péloponèse. Plusieurs passages sont obscurs et controversés.

Les enfants sont les otages mentionnés au chap. lxi; les hommes sont probablement des prisonniers de guerre.

Les esclaves fugitifs. Les États en guerre étaient les seuls qui leur donnassent asile.

D’Apollon Pythéen, sacrifice qui avait occasionné la guerre entre Argos et Épidaure. Voyez chap. uii.

Ce passage est inintelligible dans le texte reçu. Je lis : αἰ μεν λήν, τοῖς Έπιδαυρίοις ὅρκον δόμεν. αἰ δε, αὐτούς ὀμόσαι. Si placet, jusjurandum in Epidaurios transferant; sin minus, ipsi jurent.

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