Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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V. prassontôn de tauta amphoterôn kai ontôn ouden allo ê hôsper archomenôn en kataskeuêi^* tou polemou, prôtoi Euboês hôs Agin peri apostaseôs tôn Athênaiôn^* epresbeusanto en tôi cheimôni toutôi. ho de prosdexamenos tous⁺ logous autôn metapempetai ek Lakedaimonos Alkamenê ton Sthenelaïdou kai Melanthon archontas hôs es tên Euboian^*: hoi d' êlthon echontes tôn neodamôdôn hôs triakosious, kai pareskeuazen autois tên diabasin. [2] en toutôi de kai Lesbioi êlthon boulomenoi kai autoi apostênai: kai xumprassontôn autois tôn Boiôtôn^* anapeithetai Agis hôste Euboias men peri epischein, tois de Lesbiois pareskeuaze^* tên apostasin, Alkamenê te^* harmostên didous, hos es Euboian plein emelle, kai deka men Boiôtoi naus hupeschonto, deka de Agis. [3] kai tauta aneu tês Lakedaimoniôn poleôs^* eprasseto: ho gar Agis, hoson chronon ên peri Dekeleian echôn tên meth' heautou dunamin, kurios ên kai apostellein ei poi tina ebouleto stratian kai xunageirein^* kai chrêmata prassein. kai polu mallon hôs eipein kata touton ton kairon autou^* hoi xummachoi hupêkouon [ê] tôn en têi polei Lakedaimoniôn: dunamin gar echôn autos euthus hekastachose deinos parên.

[4] kai ho men tois Lesbiois eprasse, Chioi^* de kai Eruthraioi^* apostênai kai autoi hetoimoi ontes pros men Agin ouk etraponto, es de tên Lakedaimona. kai para Tissaphernous, hos basilei Dareiôi^* tôi Artaxerxou stratêgos ên tôn katô^*, presbeutês hama met' autôn parên. [5] epêgeto gar kai ho Tissaphernês tous Peloponnêsious kai hupischneito trophên parexein. hupo⁺ basileôs⁺ gar neôsti etunchane pepragmenos^*+ tous ek tês heautou archês phorous⁺, hous^* di' Athênaious apo tôn Hellênidôn poleôn ou dunamenos prassesthai epôpheilêsen^*: tous te oun phorous mallon enomize komieisthai kakôsas tous Athênaious, kai hama basilei xummachous Lakedaimonious poiêsein, kai Amorgên^* ton Pissouthnou huion nothon, aphestôta peri Karian, hôsper autôi prosetaxe basileus, ê zônta axein ê apoktenein^*.

Further comments from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
book 8 (general note)
book 8, chapter 5 (general note)
book 8, chapter 5, section 1: kataskeuê
book 8, chapter 5, section 1: Sthenelaidou
book 8, chapter 5, section 1: tôn neodamôdôn

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
411 [Doppelter Akkusativ.]

Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
6, 42, 2 [BOOK VI]
7, 151 [BOOK VII]
9, 76, 3 [BOOK IX]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7:
7, 67, 2

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 100, 3
8, 19, 2
8, 28, 3
8, 28, 3
8, 29, 1

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 65
4, 89

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
5, 14
5, 32
5, 63

Cross references from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
9, 76

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
peloponnesian-war [Peloponnesian War]

Cross references from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
1, 112

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