Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Theodor Braun (Translator), 1.17

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Die Tyrannen in den griechischen Städten waren nur
auf ihren eigenen Vorteil bedacht, und ihre Politik lief wesent
lich auf die Sorge für ihre Person und ihre Familie und die
Befestigung ihrer Stellung hinaus. Auf größere Unternehmungen
haben sie sich nicht eingelassen, höchstens daß mal einer einen
Krieg gegen seine Nachbarn führte. Nur in Sizilien haben
sie es allerdings zu bedeutender Macht gebracht. So ist Griechen
land aus mancherlei Gründen längere Zeit nicht vorangekommen.
Gemeinsame größere Unternehmungen machte man nicht, und
in den einzelnen Städten fehlte es an Unternehmungsgeist.

History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Theodor Braun (Translator). Leipzig. 1917.

Current edition First1KGreek

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs (German) (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Braun, Theodor, translator. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1917.)

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Ἱστορίαι Perseus (Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).) — 1.17.1 focus

[1] τύραννοί τε ὅσοι ἦσαν ἐν ταῖς Ἑλληνικαῖς πόλεσι,τὸ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν μόνον προορώμενοι ἔς τε τὸ σῶμα καὶ ἐς τὸ τὸν ἴδιον οἶκον αὔξειν δι’ ἀσφαλείας ὅσον ἐδύναντο μάλιστα τὰς πόλεις ᾤκουν, ἐπράχθη δὲ οὐδὲν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἔργον ἀξιόλογον, εἰ μὴ εἴ τι πρὸς περιοίκους τοὺς αὐτῶν ἑκάστοις· οἱ γὰρ ἐν Σικελίᾳ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐχώρησαν δυνάμεως. οὕτω πανταχόθεν ἡ Ἑλλὰς ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον κατείχετο μήτε κοινῇ φανερὸν μηδὲν κατεργάζεσθαι, κατὰ πόλεις τε ἀτολμοτέρα εἶναι.

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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.) — 1.17.1 focus

[1] And as for the tyrants that were in the Grecian cities, who forecasted only for themselves how with as much safety as was possible to look to their own persons and their own families, they resided for the most part in the cities and did no action worthy of memory, unless it were against their neighbours. For as for the tyrants of Sicily, they were already arrived at greater power. Thus was Greece for a long time hindered, that neither jointly it could do anything remarkable nor the cities singly be adventurous.

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.) — 1.17.1 focus

[1] Again, wherever there were tyrants, their habit of providing simply for themselves, of looking solely to their personal comfort and family aggrandizement, made safety the great aim of their policy, and prevented anything great proceeding from them; though they would each have their affairs with their immediate neighbors. All this is only true of the mother country, for in Sicily they attained to very great power. Thus for a long time everywhere in Hellas do we find causes which make the states alike incapable of combination for great and national ends, or of any vigorous action of their own.

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Wahrmund, Adolf, translator. Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffmann, 1864.) — 1.17 focus

Die Tyrannen, so viele ihrer in den Hellenischen Städten
aufkamen, bedachten alle nur sich selbst, die eigne Sicherheit und die
Vergrößerung ihrer Familienmacht Sicherheitsmaßregeln waren ¹²³
das Hauptaugenmerk ihrer politischen Verwaltung; irgend ein
erwähnenswerthes Unternehmen aber wurde von ihnen nicht ausgeführt, ⁴⁵
höchstens Kriege gegen ihre Nachbarn; nur die in Sicilien
brachtenes zu einer sehr bedeutenden Macht ^ ^). Auf diese Weise ist Hellas
lange Zeit her durch Einflüsse aller Art niedergehalten worden,
so daß weder gemeinsam irgend eine glänzende That ausgeführt ⁶⁷⁸
wurde, noch auch die einzelnen Staaten für sich Unternehmungsgeist
zeigten^*).

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponèse First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése, Vol. 1-2. Zévort, Marie Charles, translator. Paris: Charpentier, 1852.) — 1.17 focus

XVII. Tous les tyrans établis dans les villes de la Grèce, préoccupés uniquement de leurs intérêts, de la défense de leur personne et de l’accroissement de leur maison, se tenaient surtout dans les villes et s’y entouraient de tous les moyens de défense en leur pouvoir ; aussi, à part quelques entreprises contre leurs voisins, aucun d’eux ne fit il rien de mémorable. Il n’y eut que ceux de Sicile qui parvinrent à une haute puissance. Ainsi mille obstacles de tout genre s’opposèrent à ce que les Grecs fissent rien de remarquable en commun, et à ce que chaque État pût rien entreprendre isolément.

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése. Bétant, Élie-Ami, translator. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1863.) — 1.17 focus

Les tyrans établis dans les cités grecques, uniquement occupés de leurs intérêts, de leur sûfeté personnelle et de l’agrandissement de leur maison, se contentaient de vivre en sécurité dans l’enceinte de leurs villes. A part quelques entreprises contre leurs voisins, aucun d’eux ne fit rien de remarquable ; j’excepte les tyrans de Sicile, qui élevèrent très-haut leur puissance ¹. Ainsi,pendant uneloDgue suite d’années,tout concourut à mettre la Grèce dans l’impossibilité de réunir ses forces pour quelque grande opération; l’isolement empêchait l’esprit de conquête.

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.) — 1.17.1 focus

[1] The tyrants, moreover—whenever there were tyrants in the Hellenic cities—since they had regard for their own interests only,both as to the safety of their own persons and as to the aggrandizement of their own families, in the administration of their cities made security, so far as they possibly could, their chief aim, and so no achievement worthy ot mention was accomplished by them, except perchance by individuals in conflict with their own neighbours. So on all sides Hellas was for a long time kept from carrying out in common any notable undertaking, and also its several states from being more enterprising.

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.) — 1.17.1 focus

[1] As for the tyrants, such as there were in the Grecian cities, since they provided only for what concerned themselves, with a view to the safety of their own persons, and the aggrandizement of their own family, they governed their cities with caution, as far as they possibly could; and nothing memorable was achieved by them; [indeed nothing,] except it might be against their own several border states. [I speak of those in old Greece,] for those in Sicily advanced to a very great degree of power. Thus on all sides Greece for a long time was kept in check; so that it both performed nothing illustrious in common, and was less daring as regards individual states.

Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci First1KGreek (Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci. Haase, Friedrich, translator. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1869.) — 1.17.1 focus

[1] Tyranni vero, quotquot in Graecis urbibus erant, suis tantum rebus prospicientes, ut et corpus tuerentur, et suam familiam amplificarent, quam tutissime poterant, urbes incolebant, nullumque facinus memoria dignum ab illis est factum, nisi forte contra suos cujusque vicinos. Nam qui erant in. Sicilia, ad maximam potentiam sunt evecti.

[2] Ita Graecia undique longo temporis spatio continebatur, ut neque communiter ullum illustre facinus ederet, et in stugulis civitatibus minor audacia esset.

La storia di Tucidide First1KGreek (Thucydides. Della storia di Tucidide volgarizzata libri otto. Anonymous translator. Florence: Tipografia Galileiana, 1835.) — 1.17 focus

Ma tutti i tiranni delle greche città studiosi solo del proprio interesse, della persona loro e degli avanzamenti delle famiglie, tenevansi ordinariamente dentro alle città per esser più sicuri che potevano ; e nulla fecero di rilievo, se non che in particolare qualche cosa contro i confinanti ; laddove q uei di Sicilia erano saliti in gran potenza. Così fu dappertutto la Grecia lungo tempo impedita che nulla di grande potè fare in comune ; e le città particolari erano, anzi che no, senza ardimento.

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 1.17

Theodor Braun (Translator)

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