Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Theodor Braun (Translator), 1.7

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Die erst aus jüngerer Zeit stammenden Städte, wo man
sich schon besser auf die Schiffahrt verstand und reicher ge
worden war, wurden mit Mauern umgeben und unmittelbar
an der See oder auch auf Landengen angelegt, um hier den
Handel bequemer betreiben und die Machtstellung den Nach
barn gegenüber um so eher behaupten zu können. Die alten
Städte auf den Inseln wie auf dem Festlande dagegen wurden
meist in einiger Entfernung von der See gegründet der be
ständigen Räubereien wegen, welche man untereinander, nament
lich aber gegen die selbst nicht seefahrende Bevölkerung an der
Wasserkante verübte, und so liegen sie auch jetzt immer noch
weiter im Binnenlande.

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).) — 1.7.1 focus

[1] τῶν δὲ πόλεων ὅσαι μὲν νεώτατα ᾠκίσθησαν καὶ ἤδη πλωιμωτέρων ὄντων, περιουσίας μᾶλλον ἔχουσαι χρημάτων ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς τοῖς αἰγιαλοῖς τείχεσιν ἐκτίζοντο καὶ τοὺς ἰσθμοὺς ἀπελάμβανον ἐμπορίας τε ἕνεκα καὶ τῆς πρὸς τοὺς προσοίκους ἕκαστοι ἰσχύος· αἱ δὲ παλαιαὶ διὰ τὴν λῃστείαν ἐπὶ πολὺ ἀντίσχουσαν ἀπὸ θαλάσσης μᾶλλον ᾠκίσθησαν, αἵ τε ἐν ταῖς νήσοις καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἠπείροις (ἔφερον γὰρ ἀλλήλους τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσοι ὄντες οὐ θαλάσσιοι κάτω ᾤκουν), καὶ μέχρι τοῦδε ἔτι ἀνῳκισμένοι εἰσίν.

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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.) — 1.7.1 focus

[1] As for cities, such as are of late foundation and since the increase of navigation, inasmuch as they have had since more plenty of riches, have been walled about and built upon the shore, and have taken up isthmi [that is to say, necks of land between sea and sea] both for merchandise and for the better strength against confiners. But the old cities, men having been in those times for the most part infested by thieves, are built farther up, as well in the islands as in the continent. For others also that dwelt on the seaside, though not seamen, yet they molested one another with robberies. And even to these times those people are planted up high in the country.

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.) — 1.7.1 focus

[1] With respect to their towns, later on, at an era of increased facilities of navigation and a greater supply of capital, we find the shores becoming the site of walled towns, and the isthmuses being occupied for the purposes of commerce, and defence against a neighbor. But the old towns, on account of the great prevalence of piracy, were built away from the sea, whether on the islands or the continent, and still remain in their old sites. For the pirates used to plunder one another, and indeed all coast populations, whether seafaring or not.

Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs First1KGreek (Thucydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Kriegs. Wahrmund, Adolf, translator. Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffmann, 1864.) — 1.7 focus

Die zuletzt gegründeten Städte aber, deren Erbauer schon
der Schisssahrt kundiger und an Geld und Gut reicher waren, wurden
dicht am Meere angelegt und durch Mauern geschützt. Auch Landengen
wählte man gern, sowohl der Leichtigkeit des Verkehrs wegen, als um
den Nachbarn gegenüber möglichst im Vortheil zu sein. Hingegen sind ¹²³
die alten Städte wegen der Seeräuber großentheils weit vom Meer
entfernt angelegt, nnd zwar sowohl die auf den Inseln, als die des
Festlandes, — denn man plünderte sich gegenseitig aus, vorzüglich aber
die, welche ohne Schiffsahrt zu treiben an der Küste wohnten —, und
so sind sie bis auf den heutigen Tag tief im Lande gelegen.

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponèse First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése, Vol. 1-2. Zévort, Marie Charles, translator. Paris: Charpentier, 1852.) — 1.7 focus

VII. Les villes fondées le plus récemment, à une époque où la marine avait déjà pris de l’extension et où les richesses étaient plus considérables, furent bâties sur le bord de la mer et entourées de murailles ; elles occupèrent les isthmes, position plus favorable au commerce et plus facile à défendre contre les étrangers. Mais les villes anciennes, soit des îles, soit du continent, ayant à redouter la piraterie fort répandue alors, s’établirent loin de la mer ; car on se pillait mutuellement, et tous les habitants des côtes, même sans être marins, se livraient au brigandage. Aujourd’hui encore on trouve ces villes habitées dans l’intérieur des terres.

Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése First1KGreek (Thucydides. Histoire de la Guerre du Péloponnése. Bétant, Élie-Ami, translator. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1863.) — 1.7 focus

Les villes fondées plus récemment, à une époque où la navigation était plus sûre et la richesse plus générale, furent construites au bord de la mer et environnées de remparts ; elles occupèrent les isthmes, pour mieux assurer leur commerce et être plus fortes contre leurs voisins. Au contraire, comme la piraterie se maintint pendant de longues années, les villes anciennes, soit dans les îles, soit sur le continent, s’étaient bâties à distance de la mer : car les pirates se pillaient entre eux et désolaient les peuples qui, sans être marins, habitaient les côtes ; c’est pour cela que nous voyons bon nombre de villes situées loin de la mer.

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.) — 1.7.1 focus

[1] However, the cities which were founded in more recent times, when navigation had at length become safer, and were consequently beginning to have surplus resources, were built right on the seashore, and the isthmuses¹ were occupied and walled off with a view to commerce and to the protection of the several peoples against their neighbours. But the older cities, both on the islands and on the mainland, were built more at a distance from the sea on account of the piracy that long prevailed—for the pirates were wont to plunder not only one another, but also any others who dwelt on the coast but were not sea-faring folk—and even to the present day they lie inland.

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.) — 1.7.1 focus

[1] Of the cities, again, such as were founded most recently and when there were now greater facilities of navigation, having greater abundance of wealth, they were built with walls on the very shores; and occupied isthmuses, with a view both to commerce and to security against their several neighbours: whereas the old ones, owing to the ¹ long continuance of piracy, were built farther off from the sea, both those in the islands and those on the mainlands; (for they used to plunder one another, and all the rest who lived by the sea without being seamen;) and even to the present day they are built inland.

Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci First1KGreek (Historia Belli Peloponnesiaci. Haase, Friedrich, translator. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1869.) — 1.7.1 focus

[1] Urbes vero, quotquot novissime sunt conditae, et ex quo navigatio tutior esse coepit, quum majorem pecuniarum copiam haberent, ad ipsa littora moenibus cinctae condebantur, et isthmos occupabant, cum mercaturae causa, tum potentiae inter suos quaeque finitimos. At vetustae urbes, propter latronum infestationem, quae'multum invaluerat, procul a mari potius condilse sunt tam illae, quae in insulis, quam quae in continente sunt; (nam latrones et invicem se populabantur et reliquos, qui licet rebus maritimis operam non darent, tamen non procul a mari habitarent;) atque ad hoc usque tempus illae procul a mari sunt.

La storia di Tucidide First1KGreek (Thucydides. Della storia di Tucidide volgarizzata libri otto. Anonymous translator. Florence: Tipografia Galileiana, 1835.) — 1.7 focus

Le città poi fondate più recentemente, quando già più frequente era l' uso del mare, essendo più abbondanti di denaro, si fabbricavano proprio sulle coste con mura con le quali comprendevano gl' istmi, per favorire la mercatura, ed afforzarsi contro i vicini : laddove le città antiche sì dell’ isole che di terraferma, per tema dei corsali che si ressero lungamente, erano fabbricate più di lungi dal mare ; poiché non solo i Greci tra loro, ma derubavansi anche gli altri che abitavano sulle coste , quantunque non esercitati sulla marina. Coteste città man tengono ancora la loro situazione distante dal mare.

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 1.7

Theodor Braun (Translator)

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