Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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CXXVIII. antekeleuon de kai hoi Athênaioi tous Lakedaimonious to apo Tainarou agos^* elaunein: hoi gar Lakedaimonioi anastêsantes pote ek tou hierou tou Poseidônos [apo Tainarou] tôn Heilôtôn hiketas apagagontes^* diephtheiran, di' ho dê kai sphisin autois^* nomizousi ton megan seismon genesthai en Spartêi⁺. [2] ekeleuon de kai to tês Chalkioikou^** agos elaunein autous: egeneto de toionde. [3] epeidê Pausanias ho Lakedaimonios to prôton^** metapemphtheis hupo Spartiatôn apo tês archês tês en Hellêspontôi kai kritheis hup' autôn apeluthê mê adikein, dêmosiai men ouketi exepemphthê, idiai^* de autos triêrê labôn Hermionida^* aneu^* Lakedaimoniôn^* aphikneitai es Hellêsponton, tôi men logôi^* epi ton Hellênikon polemon^*, tôi de ergôi ta pros basilea pragmata prassein^**, hôsper kai to prôton epecheirêsen, ephiemenos tês Hellênikês^* archês^*. [4] euergesian de^* apo toude^** prôton es basilea katetheto^** kai tou pantos pragmatos archên epoiêsato: [5] Buzantion^* gar helôn têi proterai^* parousiai^* meta tên ek Kuprou anachôrêsin eichon de Mêdoi auto kai basileôs⁺ prosêkontes tines kai xungeneis hoi healôsan en autôi^* tote^** toutous hous elaben apopempei^* basilei krupha tôn allôn^* xummachôn^*, tôi de logôi apedrasan auton^*. [6] eprasse^* de tauta meta Gongulou^* tou Eretriôs, hôiper^* epetrepse to te Buzantion kai tous aichmalôtous. epempse de kai epistolên ton Gongulon pheronta autôi: enegegrapto de tade en autêi, hôs husteron anêurethê: [7] ‘Pausanias ho hêgemôn tês Spartês tousde te^* soi charizesthai boulomenos apopempei dori helôn,kai gnômên poioumai^**, ei kai soi dokei, thugatera te tên sên gêmai kai soi Spartên te kai tên allên Hellada hupocheirion poiêsai. dunatos de dokô einai tauta praxai meta sou bouleuomenos. ei oun ti se toutôn areskei^*, pempe andra piston epi thalassan^* di' hou to loipon tous logous poiêsometha.’

Further comments from E. C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
book 1 (general note)
book 1, chapter 128 (general note)
book 1, chapter 128, section 1: seismon
book 1, chapter 128, section 3: Hellênikon
book 1, chapter 128, section 7: dori
book 1, chapter 128, section 7: tên sên
book 1, chapter 128, section 7: hêsthê te kai apostellei

Further comments from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
book 1 (general note)
book 1, chapter 128: antekeleuon ... ekeleuon
book 1, chapter 128: di ho dê
book 1, chapter 128: seismon
book 1, chapter 128: prosêkontes
book 1, chapter 128: kai epistolên
book 1, chapter 128: aneurethê
book 1, chapter 128: dori
book 1, chapter 128: tên sên

Cross references from The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (eds. Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister):
tainaron [ TAINARON (Cape Matapan) Peloponnesos, Lakonia, Greece. ]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
130 [Anomala der dritten Deklination, d. h. diejenigen Substantive, deren Flexion von den oben angegebenen Regeln abweicht.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
371 [Bemerkungen über einige Eigentümlichkeiten im Gebrauche des Numerus, des Genus und der Person.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
473 [b) Infinitiv ohne Artikel als Ergänzung von Satzgliedern und Sätzen.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [162-331]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [167-171]

Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
5, 32 [BOOK V]
6, 100, 1 [BOOK VI]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
2, 19, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3:
3, 5, 1

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7:
7, 49, 2

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 14, 3
8, 29, 2

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 20
4, 28
4, 28
4, 28
4, 20
4, 28
4, 28
4, 28
4, 76
4, 78
4, 89

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
5, 4
5, 60

Cross references from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
7, 168
9, 89

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
taenarum [Taenărum]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
156 [Gnomic and Iterative tenses: Gnomic Aorist and Perfect.]
613 [Temporal Particles signifying Until and Before.: heôs, ophra, eis ho or eisoke, este, achri, mechri, until.]
669 [Simple Sentences in Indirect Discourse: Indicative and Optative after hoti and hôs, and in Indirect Questions.]
669 [Simple Sentences in Indirect Discourse: Indicative and Optative after hoti and hôs, and in Indirect Questions.]
747 [Object Infinitive not in Indirect Discourse.]
747 [Object Infinitive not in Indirect Discourse.]
749 [Object Infinitive not in Indirect Discourse.]
795 [Infinitive with to, after Adjectives and Nouns.]
881 [I. Not in Indirect Discourse.]
887 [I. Not in Indirect Discourse.]
828 [Attributive Participle.]

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
42, 537 [Article with names of persons. ]

Cross references from E. C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
1, 31, 4
1, 33, 1
1, 129, 1
1, 131, 1
1, 94, 2

This text is based on the following book(s):
Thucydides. Historiae in two volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1942.