Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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XCIII. têi d' husteraiai hoi men tetrakosioi es to bouleutêrion homôs kai tethorubêmenoi^* xunelegonto: hoi d' en tôi Peiraiei hoplitai ton te Alexiklea hon xunelabon^* aphentes kai to teichisma kathelontes es to pros⁺ têi Mounichiai Dionusiakon theatron^* elthontes kai themenoi ta hopla exeklêsiasan^*, kai doxan autois^* euthus echôroun es to astu kai ethento au en tôi Anakeiôi ta hopla. [2] elthontes de apo⁺ tôn tetrakosiôn tines hêirêmenoi pros autous anêr andri dielegonto te kai epeithon^* hous idoien anthrôpous epieikeis^* autous te hêsuchazein kai tous allous parakatechein^*, legontes tous te pentakischilious apophanein, kai ek toutôn en merei hêi an tois pentakischiliois dokêi tous tetrakosious esesthai, teôs de tên polin mêdeni tropôi diaphtheirein^* mêd' es tous polemious anôsai^*. [3] to de pan plêthos^*+ tôn hoplitôn⁺ apo pollôn⁺ kai pros pollous⁺ logôn gignomenôn êpiôteron ên ê proteron kai ephobeito^* malista^* peri^* tou pantos politikou: xunechôrêsan te hôste es hêmeran rhêtên ekklêsian poiêsai en tôi Dionusiôi^* peri homonoias.

Further comments from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
book 8 (general note)
book 8, chapter 93 (general note)
book 8, chapter 93, section 1: en tôi Anakiôi
book 8, chapter 93, section 3: poêsai

Cross references from The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (eds. Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister):
peiraeus [ PEIRAEUS or Peiraieus, Attica, Greece. ]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6:
6, 33, 5

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 105, 3
8, 86, 3
8, 97, 1

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

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
peloponnesian-war [Peloponnesian War]
fig.01557 [Remains of Greek Theatre at Syracuse.]

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
Lysias, 13, 32 [Kata Agoratou]

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