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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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XLVII. Such was the funeral that took place during this winter, with which the first year of the war came to an end. [2] In the first days of summer the Lacedaemonians and their allies, with two-thirds of their forces as before, invaded Attica, under the command of Archidamus, son of Zeuxidamus, king of Lacedaemon, and sat down and laid waste the country. [3] Not many days after their arrival in Attica the plague first began to show itself among the Athenians. It was said that it had broken out in many places previously in the neighborhood of Lemnos and elsewhere; but a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered. [4] Neither were the physicians at first of any service, ignorant as they were of the proper way to treat it, but they died themselves the most thickly, as they visited the sick most often; nor did any human art succeed any better. Supplications in the temples, divinations, and so forth were found equally futile, till the overwhelming nature of the disaster at last put a stop to them altogether.

There are a total of 35 comments on and cross references to this page.

Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
983 [APPOSITION]: Peloponnêsioi kai hoi xummachoi ta duo merê
1927 [AORIST INDICATIVE]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
359 [Lehre von der Kongruenz der Form.]
406 [Apposition.]
461 [e) Ho, hê, to als eigentlicher Artikel, wie er sich vollständig in der attischen Mundart, besonders in der Prosa entwickelt hat.]
462 [Weglassung des Artikels.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
477 [Gebrauch der persönlichen Konstruktion bei dem Infinitive statt der unpersönlichen.]
582 [II. Vergleichende Adverbialsätze der Quantität oder Intensität, der Grösse, des Grades oder Masses.]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
2, 6, 4 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 8, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 10, 2 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 19, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 49, 6 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 51, 5 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 51, 6 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 56, 4 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 60, 6 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 64, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 68, 5 [Commentary on Book 2]
* [Appendix: Analysis of Book 2]
2, 103, 2 [Commentary on Book 2]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3:
3, 81, 4

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7:
7, 13, 2
7, 15, 3
7, 42, 3

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 2
4, 2

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
12, 75 [Book 12 (m)]

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This text is based on the following book(s):
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.