Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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LXVII. At this juncture arrived Pisander and his colleagues, who lost no time in doing the rest. First they assembled the people, and moved to elect ten commissioners with full powers to frame a constitution, and that when this was done they should on an appointed day lay before the people their opinion as to the best mode of governing the city. [2] Afterwards, when the day arrived, the conspirators enclosed the assembly in Colonus, a temple of Poseidon, a little more than a mile outside the city; when the commissioners simply brought forward this single motion, that any Athenian might propose with impunity whatever measure he pleased, heavy penalties being imposed upon any who should indict for illegality, or otherwise molest him for so doing. [3] The way thus cleared, it was now plainly declared, that all tenure of office and receipt of pay under the existing institutions were at an end, and that five men must be elected as presidents, who should in their turn elect one hundred, and each of the hundred three apiece; and that this body thus made up to four hundred should enter the council chamber with full powers and govern as they judged best, and should convene the five thousand whenever they pleased.

Further comments from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
book 8 (general note)
book 8, chapter 67 (general note)
book 8, chapter 67, section 1: oun
book 8, chapter 67, section 1: xungrapheas
book 8, chapter 67, section 1: gnômên esenenkein
book 8, chapter 67, section 2: xunkathisan
book 8, chapter 67, section 2: ton Kolônon
book 8, chapter 67, section 2: Athênaiôn
book 8, chapter 67, section 2: anatei eipein
book 8, chapter 67, section 2: grapsêtai paranomôn
book 8, chapter 67, section 3: entautha dê . . . elegeto êdê
book 8, chapter 67, section 3: kosmou
book 8, chapter 67, section 3: misthophorein
book 8, chapter 67, section 3: kai . . . de

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [1447-1499: Commos]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
376 [Medialform mit passiver Bedeutung.]
421 [Schluss.]

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 1, 3
8, 92, 6
8, 93, 1
8, 94, 1
8, 97, 1
8, 24, 4
8, 53, 3
8, 86, 6

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 76

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
5, 39
5, 65

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, 67

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