Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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LXVIII. kata de tous⁺ autous chronous, tou therous teleutôntos, kai Amprakiôtai autoi te kai tôn barbarôn pollous anastêsantes estrateusan ep' Argos^* to Amphilochikon kai tên allên^* Amphilochian. [2] echthra⁺ de pros⁺ tous Argeious^*+ apo^* toude autois êrxato prôton^* genesthai. [3] Argos to Amphilochikon kai Amphilochian tên allên ektise men meta⁺ ta Trôika oikade anachôrêsas kai ouk areskomenos têi^* en Argei katastasei^* Amphilochos ho Amphiareô en tôi Amprakikôi kolpôi, homônumon têi heautou patridi Argos onomasas [4] kai ên hê polis hautê megistê tês Amphilochias kai tous dunatôtatous^* eichen oikêtoras, [5] hupo xumphorôn de pollais geneais husteron piezomenoi^* Amprakiôtas^* homorous ontas têi Amphilochikêi xunoikous epêgagonto, kai hêllênisthêsan^* tên nun glôssan tote prôton apo tôn Amprakiôtôn xunoikêsantôn^*: hoi de alloi Amphilochoi barbaroi eisin. [6] ekballousin oun tous Argeious hoi Amprakiôtai chronôi^* kai autoi ischousi tên polin^*. [7] hoi d' Amphilochoi genomenou toutou didoasin heautous Akarnasi, kai prosparakalesantes amphoteroi Athênaious, hoi autois Phormiôna^* te stratêgon epempsan kai naus triakonta, aphikomenou [de] tou Phormiônos hairousi kata kratos Argos kai tous Amprakiôtas êndrapodisan^*, koinêi te ôikisan auto Amphilochoi kai Akarnanes. [8] meta de touto hê xummachia prôton egeneto Athênaiois kai Akarnasin. [9] hoi de Amprakiôtai tên men echthran es tous Argeious apo tou andrapodismou sphôn autôn prôton epoiêsanto, husteron de en tôi polemôi^* tênde tên strateian poiountai hautôn te kai Chaonôn^* kai allôn tinôn tôn plêsiochôrôn barbarôn: elthontes te pros to Argos tês men chôras ekratoun, tên de polin hôs ouk edunanto helein prosbalontes, apechôrêsan ep' oikou kai dieluthêsan kata ethnê. tosauta men en tôi therei egeneto.

Further comments from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
book 2 (general note)
book 2, chapter 68 (general note)
book 2, chapter 68, section 1: Anastêsantes
book 2, chapter 68, section 3: onomosas
book 2, chapter 68, section 5: tên nun g
book 2, chapter 68, section 8: Hê x
book 2, chapter 68, section 9: Echthran ... epoiêsanto

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
425 [Der Dativ als Vertreter des Instrumentalis.]
439 [3) Meta, mit.]
455 [Von dem Reflexivpronomen insbesondere).]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
2, 2, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 7, 3 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 47, 3 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 80, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 80, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 96, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 102, 5 [Commentary on Book 2]
* [Appendix: Analysis of Book 2]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3:
3, 7, 3

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 77
4, 87
4, 89

Cross references from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
8, 134
9, 93

Cross references from Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5:
5, 4

Cross references from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
1, 18
1, 18

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