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    Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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    LIII. There they found the Salaminia come from Athens for Alcibiades, with orders for him to sail home to answer the charges which the state brought against him, and for certain others of the soldiers who with him were accused of sacrilege in the matter of the mysteries and of the Hermae. [2] For the Athenians, after the departure of the expedition, had continued as active as ever in investigating the facts of the mysteries and of the Hermae, and, instead of testing the informers, in their suspicious temper welcomed all indifferently, arresting and imprisoning the best citizens upon the evidence of rascals, and preferring to sift the matter to the bottom sooner than to let an accused person of good character pass unquestioned, owing to the rascality of the informer. [3] The commons had heard how oppressive the tyranny of Pisistratus and his sons had become before it ended, and further that that tyranny had been put down at last, not by themselves and Harmodius, but by the Lacedaemonians, and so were always in fear and took everything suspiciously.


    There are a total of 18 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6:
    book 6 (general note)
    book 6, chapter 53 (general note)
    book 6, chapter 53, section 1: tên Salaminian
    book 6, chapter 53, section 1: keleusontas
    book 6, chapter 53, section 1: met' authou
    book 6, chapter 53, section 2: zêtêsin
    book 6, chapter 53, section 2: ou dokimazontes tous m
    book 6, chapter 53, section 2: tina
    book 6, chapter 53, section 3: hupo Lakedaimoniôn

    Further comments from Charles Forster Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 6:
    book 6 (general note)
    book 6, chapter 53: tên Salaminian naun
    book 6, chapter 53: hôs keleusontas
    book 6, chapter 53: apoplein
    book 6, chapter 53: hôn hê polis enekalei
    book 6, chapter 53: tôn stratiôtôn tôn met' autou
    book 6, chapter 53: met' autou
    book 6, chapter 53: tôn de kai peri tôn Hermôn
    book 6, chapter 53: ouden hêssonzêtêsin epoiounto
    book 6, chapter 53: ou dokimazontes tous mênutas
    book 6, chapter 53: panta hupoptôs apodechomenoi
    book 6, chapter 53: ponêrôn anthrôpôn
    book 6, chapter 53: basanisai
    book 6, chapter 53: kai chrêston dokounta einai
    book 6, chapter 53: aitiathenta
    book 6, chapter 53: anelenkton
    book 6, chapter 53: akoêi
    book 6, chapter 53: chalepên
    book 6, chapter 53: teleutôsan
    book 6, chapter 53: oud huph heautôn
    book 6, chapter 53: all' hupo Lakedaimoniôn
    book 6, chapter 53: hupoptôs elambane

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    377 [Bemerkungen über die Deponentia.]
    382 [a) Praesens.]
    389 [Konjunktiv, Optativ, Imperativ, Infinitiv und Partizip der Zeitformen.]

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

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

    Cross references from Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5:
    5, 59

    Cross references from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
    1, 59

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
    Andocides, 1, 34 [Peri tôn Mustêriôn]

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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.


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