Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Adolf Wahrmund (Translator), 6.94

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Im folgenden Sommer aber, sogleich zu
Frühlings-Anfang, brachen die Athener von Katana in Sieilien auf und segelten
an der Küste hin gegen Megara auf Sieilien, welches die
Syrakusaner, wie ich schon oben ZU) gesagt habe, unter dem Tyrannen Gelon.
in Besitz genommen, nachdem sie die Einwohner vertrieben hatten.
Sie stiegen an'S Land und verwüsteten die Aecker und bekannten ein
Kastell der Syrakusaner, welches sie jedoch nicht nehmen konnten.
Danach marshcirten sie zu Lande und von den Schiffen längs der
Küste begleitet zum Terms-Fluß, .zogen denselben aufwärts und
verwüsteten das offene Land. Auch trafen sie auf eine kleine Schaar
Syrakusaner und tödteten deren Einige, errichteten danach ein
Siegeszeichen und gingen wieder auf ihre Schiffe. Sie fuhren nach
Katana zurück, nahmen Lebensmittel ein und rückten dann mit
gefammter Macht vor Kentoripa, ein, Städtchen der Sikuler) bewogen
dieß durch Vertrag zum.Uebertritt und zogen dann wieder ab,
indem sie das Korn auf den Feldern der Jnessäer und Hybläer
verbrannten. Als sie in Katana wieder einrückten, trafen sie dort die
zweihundert und. fünfzig Reiter, die eben von Athen angekommen
waren, jedoch blos mit Reitzeug und ohne Pferde, — da man diese
sich an der Stelle verschaffen könne, — sowie dreißig berittene
Bogenschützen und dreihundert Talente Silbers ^^

History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Adolf Wahrmund (Translator). Stuttgart. 1864.

Current edition First1KGreek

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs (German) (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Wahrmund, Adolf, translator. Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffmann, 1864.)

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Ἱστορίαι Perseus (Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).) — 6.94.1 focus

[1] ἅμα δὲ τῷ ἦρι εὐθὺς ἀρχομένῳ τοῦ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους οἱ ἐν τῇ Σικελίᾳ Ἀθηναῖοι ἄραντες ἐκ τῆς Κατάνης παρέπλευσαν ἐπὶ Μεγάρων τῶν ἐν τῇ Σικελίᾳ, οὓς ἐπὶ Γέλωνος τοῦ τυράννου, ὥσπερ καὶ πρότερόν μοι εἴρηται, ἀναστήσαντες Συρακόσιοι αὐτοὶ ἔχουσι τὴν γῆν.

[2] ἀποβάντες δὲ ἐδῄωσαν τούς [τε] ἀγροὺς καὶ ἐλθόντες ἐπὶ ἔρυμά τι τῶν Συρακοσίων καὶ οὐχ ἑλόντες αὖθις καὶ πεζῇ καὶ ναυσὶ παρακομισθέντες ἐπὶ τὸν Τηρίαν ποταμὸν τό τε πεδίον ἀναβάντες ἐδῄουν καὶ τὸν σῖτον ἐνεπίμπρασαν, καὶ τῶν Συρακοσίων περιτυχόντες τισὶν οὐ πολλοῖς καὶ ἀποκτείναντές τέ τινας καὶ τροπαῖον στήσαντες ἀνεχώρησαν ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς.

[3] καὶ ἀποπλεύσαντες ἐς Κατάνην, ἐκεῖθεν δὲ ἐπισιτισάμενοι, πάσῃ τῇ στρατιᾷ ἐχώρουν ἐπὶ Κεντόριπα, Σικελῶν πόλισμα, καὶ προσαγαγόμενοι ὁμολογίᾳ ἀπῇσαν, πιμπράντες ἅμα τὸν σῖτον τῶν τε Ἰνησσαίων καὶ τῶν Ὑβλαίων.

[4] καὶ ἀφικόμενοι ἐς Κατάνην καταλαμβάνουσι τούς τε ἱππέας ἥκοντας ἐκ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν πεντήκοντα καὶ διακοσίους ἄνευ τῶν ἵππων μετὰ σκευῆς, ὡς αὐτόθεν ἵππων πορισθησομένων, καὶ ἱπποτοξότας τριάκοντα καὶ τάλαντα ἀργυρίου τριακόσια.

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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.) — 6.94.1 focus

[1] In the very beginning of the next spring the Athenians in Sicily departed from Catana and sailed by the coast to Megara of Sicily. The inhabitants whereof, in the time of the tyrant Gelon, the Syracusians (as I mentioned before) had driven out and now possess the territory themselves. Landing here, they wasted the fields;

[2] and having assaulted a certain small fortress of the Syracusians, not taking it, they went presently back, part by land and part by sea, unto the river Tereas. And landing again in the plain fields, wasted the same and burnt up their corn; and lighting on some Syracusians, not many, they slew some of them, and having set up a trophy, went all again on board their galleys.

[3] Thence they returned to Catana and took in victual; then with their whole army they went to Centoripa, a small city of the Siculi, which yielding on composition, they departed, and in their way burnt up the corn of the Inessaeans and the Hyblaeans.

[4] Being come again to Catana, they find there two hundred and fifty horsemen arrived from Athens, without horses, though not without the furniture, supposing to have horses there, and thirty archers on horseback, and three hundred talents of silver.

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.) — 6.94.1 focus

[1] The next summer, at the very beginning of the season, the Athenians in Sicily put out from Catana , and sailed along shore to Megara in Sicily , from which, as I have mentioned above, the Syracusans expelled the inhabitants in the time of their tyrant Gelo, themselves occupying the territory.

[2] Here the Athenians landed and laid waste the country, and after an unsuccessful attack upon a fort of the Syracusans, went on with the fleet and army to the river Terias, and advancing inland laid waste the plain and set fire to the corn; and after killing some of a small Syracusan party which they encountered, and setting up a trophy, went back again to their ships.

[3] They now sailed to Catana and took in provisions there, and going with their whole force against Centoripa, a town of the Sicels, acquired it by capitulation, and departed, after also burning the corn of the Inessaens and Hybleans.

[4] Upon their return to Catana they found the horsemen arrived from Athens , to the number of two hundred and fifty (with their equipments, but without their horses which were to be procured upon the spot), and thirty mounted archers and three hundred talents of silver.

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Braun, Theodor, translator. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1917.) — 6.94 focus

Gleich im Beginn des nächsten Sommerhalbjahrs brachen
die Athener in Sizilien von Katana auf und fuhren mit der
Flotte nach Megara in Sizilien, dessen Gebiet die Syrakuser
selbst in Besitz genommen, nachdem sie, wie schon erwähnt,
unter dem Tyrannen Gelon die Einwohner von dort vertrieben
hatten. Hier landeten sie und verwüsteten die Felder, machten
auch einen Angriff auf eine Schanze der Syrakuser, konnten
sie aber nicht nehmen. Darauf fuhren sie mit der Flotte und
dem Landheere an der Küste entlang nach dem Flusse Terias,
wo sie ebenfalls landeten, das platte Land verwüsteten und
das Getreide in Brand steckten, auch ein paar Syrakuser
töteten, die ihnen in den Wurf kamen, dann aber, nachdem
sie ein Siegeszeichen errichtet, auf die Schiffe zurückgingen.
Hierauf kehrten sie nach Katana zurück, um Lebensmittel ein
zunehmen, und rückten von da mit dem ganzen Heere vor
Kentoripa, eine Stadt der Sikeler, die sie durch einen Ver
gleich an sich brachten, worauf sie wieder abzogen und bei
Gelegenheit noch das Getreide der Jnessaier und der Hy
blaier in Brand steckten. Bei ihrer Ankunft in Katana
fanden sie die ihnen von Athen gesandten Reiter vor, zwei
hundertfunfzig Mann mit Geschirr, aber ohne die Pferde,
weil man meinte, die würden dort im Lande ja wohl zu
haben sein, auch dreißig reitende Bogenschützen und dreihundert
Talente Silber.

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponèse First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése, Vol. 1-2. Zévort, Marie Charles, translator. Paris: Charpentier, 1852.) — 6.94 focus

XCIV. L’été suivant, dès les premiers jours du printemps¹, les Athéniens qui étaient en Sicile firent voile de Catane, et se dirigèrent, en côtoyant, vers Mégara de Sicile. — Les Syracusains en ont chassé les habitants sous le tyran Gélon, ainsi que je l’ai dit plus haut, et occupent eux-mêmes le pays. — Ils descendirent à terre, ravagèrent les champs, se présentèrent devant un fort des Syracusains, et, n’ayant pu l’emporter, suivirent la côte par terre et par mer jusqu’au fleuve Térias². Là ils remontèrent le fleuve, ravagèrent la plaine et incendièrent les blés. Ayant rencontré un parti peu nombreux de Syracusains, ils en tuèrent ³⁴ quelques-uns, dressèrent un trophée et remontèrent ensuite sur leurs vaisseaux. De là ils firent voile pour Catane, et après s’y être ravitaillés, ils se portèrent avec toutes leurs forces contre Centoripa⁵, place des Sicèles, qui se rendit par composition. Ils se retirèrent ensuite, tout en brûlant les moissons des Inesséens⁶ et des Hybléens. De retour à Catane, ils y trouvèrent deux cent cinquante cavaliers anivant d’Athènes tout équipés, mais non montés; car on devait se procurer les chevaux dans le pays. Ils y trouvèrent également trente archers à cheval et trois cents talents.

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése. Bétant, Élie-Ami, translator. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1863.) — 6.94 focus

L’année suivante ¹, dès les premiers jours du printemps, les Athéniens qui étaient en Sicile partirent de Catane et rangèrent la côte jusqu'à Mégara. Cette place appartenait dans l’origine aux Sicules; mais les Syracusains, du temps du tyran Gélon, en avaient, comme je l’ai dit plus haut², chassé les habitants et occupé le territoire. L’armée fit une descente, dévasta la campagne, et, après avoir assailli sans succès un fort défendu par des Syracusains, elle repartit par mer et par terre ; puis elle parvint à l’embouchure du fleuve Térias. Les Athéniens s’avancèrent dans l’intérieur du pays, ravagèrent la plaine, et incendièrent les moissons. Ayant rencontré un parti de Syracusains, ils lui tuèrent quelques hommes, dressèrent un trophée et rejoignirent leurs vaisseau. De là ils revinrent à Catane ; et, après s’y être approvisionnés, ils se portèrent avec toutes leurs forces contre Centôripes, ville des Sicules, dont ils se rendirent maîtres par capitulation ; après quoi ils repartirent en mettant le feu aux blés des Ines-séens et des Hybléens ³. A leur retour à Catane, ils trouvèrent les cavaliers venus d’Athènes au nombre de deux cent cinquante avec leur harnachement, mais sans chevaux ; on avait pensé qu’ils s’en procureraient sur place. Il y avait aussi trente archers à cheval et trois cents talents d’argent⁴.

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.) — 6.94.1 focus

[1] At the very beginning of the following¹ spring, the Athenians in Sicily set out from Catana and proceeded along the coast toward Megara, from which, as has been stated before,² the Syracusans in the time of the tyrant Gelon had expelled the inhabitants, holding their territory themselves. Here they landed and ravaged

[2] the fields; then, attacking a stronghold of the Syracusans without success, they went back again along the coast with both land-force and fleet to the river Terias, and going inland ravaged the plain and set fire to the grain. Meeting with a small force of Syracusans, they killed some of them and after setting up a trophy withdrew to their ships. Having sailed back then to Catana and supplied themselves with provisions from there, they advanced with their whole army to Centoripa,³ a

[3] Sicel town; and when they had brought it over by capitulation they returned, burning at the same time the grain of the Inessians⁴

[4] and Hyblaeans.⁵ On their arrival at Catana they found that the horsemen had come from Athens, two hundred and fifty in number—with accoutrements but without the horses, for it was expected that horses would be procured in Sicily—as well as thirty mounted archers and three hundred talents⁶ of silver.

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.) — 6.94.1 focus

[1] At the very commencement of the spring of the next summer, the Athenians in Sicily put out from Catana, and coasted along towards the Sicilian Megara, from which the Syracusans, in the time of their tyrant Gelo, (as I have before mentioned,) drove out the inhabitants, and themselves continue to occupy the territory.

[2] Having landed therefore, they ravaged the country; and after going against a fort of the Syracusans without taking it, they again proceeded both with their land force and ships to the river Terias, and advancing inland, both laid waste the plain, and fired the corn. After falling in with a small body of the Syracusans, killing some of them, and erecting a trophy, they returned to their ships.

[3] When they had sailed back to Catana, and supplied themselves with provisions there, they went with their whole force against Centotripa, a town of the Sicels, and returned after getting possession of it by capitulation, burning at the same time the corn of the Inessaeans and Hybleans.

[4] On their arrival at Catana, they found the horsemen come from Athens, two hundred and fifty in number, without their horses, but with their equipments, in expectation of horses being provided there, with thirty mounted archers, and three hundred talents of silver.

Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci First1KGreek (Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci. Haase, Friedrich, translator. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1869.) — 6.94.1 focus

[1] Insequentis autem aestatis vere statim iueunle Athenienses, qui erant in Sicilia, castris e Catana motis navigarunt adversus Megara, quae sunt in Sicilia, unde, quemadmodum et prius a me commemoratum est, Syracusani pulsis sub Gelone tyranno cultoribus agrum ipsi habent.

[2] Exscensu autem ex navibus in terram facto et agros vastarunt, et ad quamdam Syracusanorum munitionem profecti , quum eam non expugnassent, rursus et pedestri itinere et navibus ad Teream fluvium se receperunt, et quum in campestria adseendissent, ea vastabant, et frumentum incendebant, et quum incidissent in nonnullos Syracusanos, quorum numerus non erat magnus, et eorum aliquot interfecissent , et tropaeum erexissent, ad classem redierunt

[3] Et Catanam reversi assumptis illinc cibariis cum omnibus copiis adversus Centoripa, Siculorum oppidum, accedebant, eoque per deditionem certis conditionibus factam in suam potestatem redacto, discedebant, et dum iter faciunt, segetes Inessaeorum et Hyblaeorum incendebant.

[4] Catanam autem reversi offendunt equites ducentos quinquaginta Athenis missos sine equis, ac cum illorum cultu, quod ipsam Siciliam equos suppeditaturam putarent, et equestres sagittarios trigintar et trecenta argenti talenta.

La storia di Tucidide First1KGreek (Thucydides. Della storia di Tucidide volgarizzata libri otto. Anonymous translator. Florence: Tipografia Galileiana, 1835.) — 6.94 focus

Incominciata appena la primavera della seguente estate, gli Ateniesi di Sicilia salpando da Catana navigarono sopra i Megaresi di Sicilia , le terre dei quali ritengono i Siracusani, fin da quando li ebbero cacciati dalle sedie loro al tempo di Gelone tiranno, siccome per me innanzi è stato detto. Colà scesi a terra diedero il guasto alla campagna , e venuti ad un forte de’ Siracusani senza averlo potuto espugnare , si ricondussero per la via di terra e colle navi al fiume Terea; e recatisi alla pianura la devastavano ed abbruciavano le messi. Uccisero ancora alcuni de’ non molti Siracusani che incontrarono , ed alzato il trofeo ritornarono alle navi , colle quali andarono a Catana; e di la presa vettovaglia marciaron con tutto l’esercito sopra Centoripn cittadella dei Siculi. Ottenuta questa per capitolazione partirono ; e in ritornando davano fuoco alle granaglie degli Inessei e degli Iblei. E pervenuti a Catana vi trovano giunti da Atene dugentocinquanta di cavalleria co’ suoi finimenti ma senza cavalli ( credendosi che questi si procaccerebbero di lì ) con più trenta arcieri da cavallo, e trecento talenti in moneta.

Commentary

Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6 (Thucydides, Book VI. Marchant, Edgar C., editor. London: Macmillan and Company, 1909.) focus

Μεγάρων, οὕς —for the change from place-name to inhabitants, which is very common, cf. cc. 48; 74, 1; 75, 2. Observe that unless gender and number are in agreement with the antecedent, attraction of rel. is impossible. Cf. c. 20, 3 Νάξου καὶ Κατάνης, ἂς ἤλπιζον .

ὥσπερ καὶ κτλ —at c. 4, 2.

ἐδῄωσαν τούς [τε] ἀγρούς —for the wrong insertion of τε see on c. 6, 2. It is improbable that Thuc. would write such a sentence as ἐδῄωσαν τούς τε ἀγροὺς καὶ . . τὸ πεδίον ἐδῄουν for ἐδῄωσάν τε τοὺς ἀ. καὶ ἐδῄουν τὸ πέδιον, for in all other places where τε is misplaced the verb in the second clause is different; the second clause refers to the return journey and should not be joined to the first by τε . . καί: if so joined τὸ πεδίον ought to refer to a plain at Megara. Herbst, who brackets τοὺς ἀγρούς as well, says that there is no passage in Thuc. in which τε is a real parallel to this. His objections to τοὺς ἀγρούς are, however, less forcible. By these words we are to understand estates about Megara that were held by Syracusans; cf. II. 13 τοὺς ἀγροὺς τοὺς αὑτοῦ, of Pericles' estates.

ἔρυμα —‘Thuc. had already twice mentioned Megara as a φρούριον of Syr. in cc. 49, 75. . . This ἔρυμα is surely something smaller than τὰ Μἐγαρα φρούριον in c. 75’ (Freeman).

αὖθις —refers to ἐδῄουν, in the sense of ‘next’; cf. c. 90, 2.

παρακομισθέντες —this goes with πεζῇ and ναυσί: all returned along the coast, some by sea, some by land. The Terias forms the boundary between Syracusan and Catanean territory.

τό τε πεδίον — i.e. τὸ τοῦ Τηρίου πεδίον. ἀναβάντες applies only to the land forces. Notice the three participles, ἑλόντες, παρακομισθέντες, ἀναβάντες. Cf. c. 97, 4.

Κεντόριπα — Centorbi, one of the Sicel towns that refused to join the A. It is close to Inessa and Geleatic Hybla.

τῶν Ἰνησσαίων —the exact site of Inessa is unknown. In III. 103 it is τὸ Σικελικὸν πόλισμα. In 426 the Athenians tried to take it and failed. For the attempt to take Hybla see c. 62, 5. Both were overlooked by Centuripa. Freeman notices that the article is wanting to Centuripa, as also to Hyccara c. 62, 3, and thinks that they were much less well-known places than Inessa, which was a famous place in the time of Ducetius.

τοὺς ἱππέας —see c. 93, 4.

τῶν ἵππων —‘the required horses’ were to be got in Sicily.

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 6.94

Adolf Wahrmund (Translator)

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