between the rock and the cold, cold sea

Section 1:

ἔτι δὲ τῶν Πελοποννησίων ξυλλεγομένων τε ἐς τὸν Ἰσθμὸν καὶ ἐν ὁδῷ ὄντων, πρὶν ἐσβαλεῖν ἐς τὴν Ἀττικήν, Περικλῆς ὁ Ξανθίππου στρατηγὸς ὢν Ἀθηναίων δέκατος αὐτός, ὡς ἔγνω τὴν ἐσβολὴν ἐσομένην, ὑποτοπήσας, ὅτι Ἀρχίδαμος αὐτῷ ξένος ὢν ἐτύγχανε, μὴ πολλάκις ἢ αὐτὸς ἰδίᾳ βουλόμενος χαρίζεσθαι τοὺς ἀγροὺς αὐτοῦ παραλίπῃ καὶ μὴ δῃώσῃ, ἢ καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων κελευσάντων ἐπὶ διαβολῇ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ γένηται τοῦτο, ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ ἄγη ἐλαύνειν προεῖπον ἕνεκα ἐκείνου, προηγόρευε τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ὅτι Ἀρχίδαμος μέν οἱ ξένος εἴη, οὐ μέντοι ἐπὶ κακῷ γε τῆς πόλεως γένοιτο, τοὺς δὲ ἀγροὺς τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ καὶ οἰκίας ἢν ἄρα μὴ δῃώσωσιν οἱ πολέμιοι ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων, ἀφίησιν αὐτὰ δημόσια εἶναι καὶ μηδεμίαν οἱ ὑποψίαν κατὰ ταῦτα γίγνεσθαι.

With the men of the Peleponnese still coming together into the Isthmus and while they were still on the road, before they fell upon Attica, Perikles the son of Xanthippos, himself being tenth general of the Athenians, as he perceived that the incursion was about to happen, surmised that Archidamos, who happened to be his guest-friend, that perhaps he [Archidamos] wanting to oblige [him] might pass by his own estates and not ravage [them], or being ordered by the Lakedamonians that a slander should come to be against him [do] this, even as they said before to drive away the accursed ones on account of that, proclaimed publically to the Athenians in the assembly that although Archidamos was his guest-friend, however it would not be for the ill of the city, and the land of his and property which the enemy did not ravage just like that of everyone else, he would give that up to be belonging to the people, that no one on account of this would fall to suspicion.

Section 2:

παρῄνει δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν παρόντων ἅπερ καὶ πρότερον, παρασκευάζεσθαί τε ἐς τὸν πόλεμον καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν ἐσκομίζεσθαι, ἔς τε μάχην μὴ ἐπεξιέναι, ἀλλὰ τὴν πόλιν ἐσελθόντας φυλάσσειν, καὶ τὸ ναυτικόν, ᾗπερ ἰσχύουσιν, ἐξαρτύεσθαι, τά τε τῶν ξυμμάχων διὰ χειρὸς ἔχειν, λέγων τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτοῖς ἀπὸ τούτων εἶναι τῶν χρημάτων τῆς προσόδου, τὰ δὲ πολλὰ τοῦ πολέμου γνώμῃ καὶ χρημάτων περιουσίᾳ κρατεῖσθαι.

He advised also concerning those present there as before, to prepare themselves for war, and to carry in the things from the fields, not to go out to battle, but having gone into the city, to guard it, and to fit out the fleet in the same way as they were strong, and to have the matters of the allies in hand, saying their strength from these things was money from income, and the greater part of war [was] to conquer with judgement and with abundance of money.

Section 3:

θαρσεῖν τε ἐκέλευε προσιόντων μὲν ἑξακοσίων ταλάντων ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ φόρου κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ξυμμάχων τῇ πόλει ἄνευ τῆς ἄλλης προσόδου, ὑπαρχόντων δὲ ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει ἔτι τότε ἀργυρίου ἐπισήμου ἑξακισχιλίων ταλάντων （τὰ γὰρ πλεῖστα τριακοσίων ἀποδέοντα μύρια ἐγένετο, ἀφ᾽ ὧν ἔς τε τὰ προπύλαια τῆς ἀκροπόλεως καὶ τἆλλα οἰκοδομήματα καὶ ἐς Ποτείδαιαν ἀπανηλώθη）,

He urged them to be of good courage for six hundred talents were present as much tribute yearly from the allies to the city, without the other income, and there was laid down in the acropolis yet at that time six thousand talents of marked silver (the part left out of nine thousand seven hundred, from which to the propylaia of the acropolis and the other buildings and the Potidaia had used up),

Section 4:

χωρὶς δὲ χρυσίου ἀσήμου καὶ ἀργυρίου ἔν τε ἀναθήμασιν ἰδίοις καὶ δημοσίοις καὶ ὅσα ἱερὰ σκεύη περί τε τὰς πομπὰς καὶ τοὺς ἀγῶνας καὶ σκῦλα Μηδικὰ καὶ εἴ τι τοιουτότροπον, οὐκ ἐλάσσονος [ἦν] ἢ πεντακοσίων ταλάντων.

apart from the unmarked gold and silver in private and city dedications and so many sacred vessels from the processions and the games and the Persian arms and anything of that kind, which was not smaller than five hundred talents.

Section 1:

ἄνδρες Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ ξύμμαχοι, καὶ οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν πολλὰς στρατείας καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ Πελοποννήσῳ καὶ ἔξω ἐποιήσαντο, καὶ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι οὐκ ἄπειροι πολέμων εἰσίν: ὅμως δὲ τῆσδε οὔπω μείζονα παρασκευὴν ἔχοντες ἐξήλθομεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ πόλιν δυνατωτάτην νῦν ἐρχόμεθα καὶ αὐτοὶ πλεῖστοι καὶ ἄριστοι στρατεύοντες.

Peleponnesian men and allies, our fathers also made many campaigns in the Peleponnese itself and outside it also, and our elders did not come before us ignorant in war: this nothwithstanding, with us never before having had a greater preparation than this, we are marching out, and also now we are going against a powerful city, and ourselves advancing as the largest and best of armies.


Section 2:

δίκαιον οὖν ἡμᾶς μήτε τῶν πατέρων χείρους φαίνεσθαι μήτε ἡμῶν αὐτῶν τῆς δόξης ἐνδεεστέρους. ἡ γὰρ Ἑλλὰς πᾶσα τῇδε τῇ ὁρμῇ ἐπῆρται καὶ προσέχει τὴν γνώμην, εὔνοιαν ἔχουσα διὰ τὸ Ἀθηναίων ἔχθος πρᾶξαι ἡμᾶς ἃ ἐπινοοῦμεν.

Therefore let us show ourselves to be neither inferior to our fathers in justice nor more lacking in expectation for ourselves. For all Greece in this very effort is exalted and is intent on this resolve, having goodwill for the object of the Athenians' hate, which we contrived to obtain for ourselves.


Section 3:

οὔκουν χρή, εἴ τῳ καὶ δοκοῦμεν πλήθει ἐπιέναι καὶ ἀσφάλεια πολλὴ εἶναι μὴ ἂν ἐλθεῖν τοὺς ἐναντίους ἡμῖν διὰ μάχης, τούτων ἕνεκα ἀμελέστερόν τι παρεσκευασμένους χωρεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πόλεως ἑκάστης ἡγεμόνα καὶ στρατιώτην τὸ καθ᾽ αὑτὸν αἰεὶ προσδέχεσθαι ἐς κίνδυνόν τινα ἥξειν.

Therefore, as many as we imagine [the enemy] to be, and as much assured [as some are] that they would not face us opposite in battle, on account of these things, those having been prepared to give way for some carelessness [must not], but the leader of each city and soldier following him also must always accept danger will come to him.


Section 4:

ἄδηλα γὰρ τὰ τῶν πολέμων, καὶ ἐξ ὀλίγου τὰ πολλὰ καὶ δι᾽ ὀργῆς αἱ ἐπιχειρήσεις γίγνονται: πολλάκις τε τὸ ἔλασσον πλῆθος δεδιὸς ἄμεινον ἠμύνατο τοὺς πλέονας διὰ τὸ καταφρονοῦντας ἀπαρασκεύους γενέσθαι.

For the course of wars are obscure, and from a few places many attacks because of passion have come to pass: often the smaller number having feared the better defended themselves against the greater number because, despising them, the greater number were unprepared.


Section 5:

χρὴ δὲ αἰεὶ ἐν τῇ πολεμίᾳ τῇ μὲν γνώμῃ θαρσαλέους στρατεύειν, τῷ δ᾽ ἔργῳ δεδιότας παρεσκευάσθαι: οὕτω γὰρ πρός τε τὸ ἐπιέναι τοῖς ἐναντίοις εὐψυχότατοι ἂν εἶεν πρός τε τὸ ἐπιχειρεῖσθαι ἀσφαλέστατοι.

It is necessary always in the purpose of war to take the field boldly, but to prepare oneself for the work having had fear: for in this way the one sent towards the enemy may be of the best courage, and the one to be set upon may be steadfast.


Section 6:

ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ ἀδύνατον ἀμύνεσθαι οὕτω πόλιν ἐρχόμεθα, ἀλλὰ τοῖς πᾶσιν ἄριστα παρεσκευασμένην, ὥστε χρὴ καὶ πάνυ ἐλπίζειν διὰ μάχης ἰέναι αὐτούς, εἰ μὴ καὶ νῦν ὥρμηνται ἐν ᾧ οὔπω πάρεσμεν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἐν τῇ γῇ ὁρῶσιν ἡμᾶς δῃοῦντάς τε καὶ τἀκείνων φθείροντας.

And we ourselves are not coming against a city in this way incapable of defending itsef, but in all things having prepared for itself in the best way, so that it is also altogether necessary to expect them to go to battle, if not already having gone forth - for which we are not yet present - but when they see us laying waste in the land and destroying their people [they will go forth].


Section 7:

πᾶσι γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ὄμμασι καὶ ἐν τῷ παραυτίκα ὁρᾶν πάσχοντάς τι ἄηθες ὀργὴ προσπίπτει: καὶ οἱ λογισμῷ ἐλάχιστα χρώμενοι θυμῷ πλεῖστα ἐς ἔργον καθίστανται.

For in all eyes the sight of suffering falls upon some unexpected passion: and the least in reason, being eager in spirit, is appointed greatest for the deed.


Section 8:

Ἀθηναίους δὲ καὶ πλέον τι τῶν ἄλλων εἰκὸς τοῦτο δρᾶσαι, οἳ ἄρχειν τε τῶν ἄλλων ἀξιοῦσι καὶ ἐπιόντες τὴν τῶν πέλας δῃοῦν μᾶλλον ἢ τὴν αὑτῶν ὁρᾶν.

The Athenians are more likely than any other to do this, as they resolve to rule over all others and to ravage by assault those near by, rather than to see it [done to] them.


Section 9:

ὡς οὖν ἐπὶ τοσαύτην πόλιν στρατεύοντες καὶ μεγίστην δόξαν οἰσόμενοι τοῖς τε προγόνοις καὶ ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς ἐπ᾽ ἀμφότερα ἐκ τῶν ἀποβαινόντων, ἕπεσθ᾽ ὅπῃ ἄν τις ἡγῆται, κόσμον καὶ φυλακὴν περὶ παντὸς ποιούμενοι καὶ τὰ παραγγελλόμενα ὀξέως δεχόμενοι: κάλλιστον γὰρ τόδε καὶ ἀσφαλέστατον, πολλοὺς ὄντας ἑνὶ κόσμῳ χρωμένους φαίνεσθαι.’

So thus against so great a city taking the field, and bearing great expectation [on account of] our forefathers and of ourselves on both sides from the stepping-off, which according to the event, someone should lead, producing order and safeguard concerning everything and accepting the keen military orders: for this is most comely and most steadfast, for the many while in order to be seen attacking.

Section 1:

ὀλίγον τε ἐπενόουν οὐδὲν ἀμφότεροι, ἀλλ᾽ ἔρρωντο ἐς τὸν πόλεμον οὐκ ἀπεικότως: ἀρχόμενοι γὰρ πάντες ὀξύτερον ἀντιλαμβάνονται, τότε δὲ καὶ νεότης πολλὴ μὲν οὖσα ἐν τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ, πολλὴ δ᾽ ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις οὐκ ἀκουσίως ὑπὸ ἀπειρίας ἥπτετο τοῦ πολέμου, ἥ τε ἄλλη Ἑλλὰς ἅπασα μετέωρος ἦν ξυνιουσῶν τῶν πρώτων πόλεων.

And no one from either side had small things in mind, but they were eager [to go] to the war, [as was] not unreasonable: for all who begin are keener to take part. [At the beginning all are keener to take part.] And at that time there were many youths in the Peleponnese, and many among the Athenians, [who were] not unwilling by [reason of] inexperience to engage in war, while all the other Greeks were coming together in suspense [about] the first cities.


Section 2:

καὶ πολλὰ μὲν λόγια ἐλέγετο, πολλὰ δὲ χρησμολόγοι ᾖδον ἔν τε τοῖς μέλλουσι πολεμήσειν καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἄλλαις πόλεσιν.

And many stories were recounted, and many oracle-mongers sung in the cities intending to go to war and in the other cities also.


Section 3:

ἔτι δὲ Δῆλος ἐκινήθη ὀλίγον πρὸ τούτων, πρότερον οὔπω σεισθεῖσα ἀφ᾽ οὗ Ἕλληνες μέμνηνται: ἐλέγετο δὲ καὶ ἐδόκει ἐπὶ τοῖς μέλλουσι γενήσεσθαι σημῆναι. εἴ τέ τι ἄλλο τοιουτότροπον ξυνέβη γενέσθαι, πάντα ἀνεζητεῖτο.


And moreover, Delos had been disturbed a little time before these events, having been shaken by an earthquake, the first which the Greeks remembered. And it was said and considered among the cities intending [to make war] [that] it showed by a sign [the things] about to come to pass. If some other thing of such kind came to pass to happen, always it was investigated.


Section 4:

ἡ δὲ εὔνοια παρὰ πολὺ ἐποίει τῶν ἀνθρώπων μᾶλλον ἐς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους, ἄλλως τε καὶ προειπόντων ὅτι τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐλευθεροῦσιν. ἔρρωτό τε πᾶς καὶ ἰδιώτης καὶ πόλις εἴ τι δύναιτο καὶ λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ ξυνεπιλαμβάνειν αὐτοῖς: ἐν τούτῳ τε κεκωλῦσθαι ἐδόκει ἑκάστῳ τὰ πράγματα ᾧ μή τις αὐτὸς παρέσται.

The goodwill of men was indeed great towards the Spartans, especially since they proclaimed that they were setting Greece free. They strengthened all things both private and city [i.e., public] if anything was able in word and in deed: in this manner it seemed to each [that] the preparations were hindered when he himself was not present to assist them.


Section 5:

οὕτως <ἐν> ὀργῇ εἶχον οἱ πλείους τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, οἱ μὲν τῆς ἀρχῆς ἀπολυθῆναι βουλόμενοι, οἱ δὲ μὴ ἀρχθῶσι φοβούμενοι.

Thus the greater number bore anger at the Athenians, on the one hand the ones wanting to be free from their rule, and on the other, the ones fearing lest [the Athenians] would rule [them].

Section 1:

τοῦτο δὲ ποιήσαντες ἔς τε τὰς Ἀθήνας ἄγγελον ἔπεμπον καὶ τοὺς νεκροὺς ὑποσπόνδους ἀπέδοσαν τοῖς Θηβαίοις, τά τε ἐν τῇ πόλει καθίσταντο πρὸς τὰ παρόντα ᾗ ἐδόκει αὐτοῖς.


And having done this they sent a messenger to the Athenians and returned their dead to the Thebans under a truce, and they set in order things in the city for the present circumstances as it seemed good to them.


Section 2:

τοῖς δ᾽ Ἀθηναίοις ἠγγέλθη εὐθὺς τὰ περὶ τῶν Πλαταιῶν γεγενημένα, καὶ Βοιωτῶν τε παραχρῆμα ξυνέλαβον ὅσοι ἦσαν ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ καὶ ἐς τὴν Πλάταιαν ἔπεμψαν κήρυκα, κελεύοντες εἰπεῖν μηδὲν νεώτερον ποιεῖν περὶ τῶν ἀνδρῶν οὓς ἔχουσι Θηβαίων, πρὶν ἄν τι καὶ αὐτοὶ βουλεύσωσι περὶ αὐτῶν:

The events concerning Plataia were immediately reported to the Athenians, and how many men from Boietia at that time gathered together [and] were in Attica and the Athenians sent a herald to Plataia, urging him to say [to the Plataians] to do nothing just now concerning the men of Thebes which they held, before they also took counsel over something [with the Athenians] concerning them.


Section 3:

οὐ γὰρ ἠγγέλθη αὐτοῖς ὅτι τεθνηκότες εἶεν. ἅμα γὰρ τῇ ἐσόδῳ γιγνομένῃ τῶν Θηβαίων ὁ πρῶτος ἄγγελος ἐξῄει, ὁ δὲ δεύτερος ἄρτι νενικημένων τε καὶ ξυνειλημμένων: καὶ τῶν ὕστερον οὐδὲν ᾔδεσαν. οὕτω δὴ οὐκ εἰδότες οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐπέστελλον: ὁ δὲ κῆρυξ ἀφικόμενος ηὗρε τοὺς ἄνδρας διεφθαρμένους.

For it had not been reported to them that the Thebans had been killed. The first messenger went out at the same time as the Thebans happened into the city, while the second [went out] just as the Plataians carried the day and rallied, and the latter knew nothing of them [the captives]. In this way, then, without having known [of the deaths], the Athenians sent their message: the herald on his arrival discovered the men were dead.


Section 4:

καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι στρατεύσαντες ἐς Πλάταιαν σῖτόν τε ἐσήγαγον καὶ φρουροὺς ἐγκατέλιπον, τῶν τε ἀνθρώπων τοὺς ἀχρειοτάτους ξὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ παισὶν ἐξεκόμισαν.

And after these things the Athenians, having advanced with an army into Plataia, imported grained and left behind guards, and they carried out the men unfit for war together with the women and the children.

Thucydides, Book 2, Chapter 4.

Section 1:

οἱ δ᾽ ὡς ἔγνωσαν ἐξηπατημένοι, ξυνεστρέφοντό τε ἐν σφίσιν αὐτοῖς καὶ τὰς προσβολὰς ᾗ προσπίπτοιεν ἀπεωθοῦντο.

And as they became aware that they had been deceived, they proceeded to unite themselves [rally in formation?] and they thrust back the attacks which were to fall upon them.


Section 2:

καὶ δὶς μὲν ἢ τρὶς ἀπεκρούσαντο, ἔπειτα πολλῷ θορύβῳ αὐτῶν τε προσβαλόντων καὶ τῶν γυναικῶν καὶ τῶν οἰκετῶν ἅμα ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκιῶν κραυγῇ τε καὶ ὀλολυγῇ χρωμένων λίθοις τε καὶ κεράμῳ βαλλόντων, καὶ ὑετοῦ ἅμα διὰ νυκτὸς πολλοῦ ἐπιγενομένου, ἐφοβήθησαν καὶ τραπόμενοι ἔφευγον διὰ τῆς πόλεως, ἄπειροι μὲν ὄντες οἱ πλείους ἐν σκότῳ καὶ πηλῷ τῶν διόδων ᾗ χρὴ σωθῆναι （καὶ γὰρ τελευτῶντος τοῦ μηνὸς τὰ γιγνόμενα ἦν）, ἐμπείρους δὲ ἔχοντες τοὺς διώκοντας τοῦ μὴ ἐκφεύγειν, ὥστε διεφθείροντο οἱ πολλοί.

And twice or thrice they drove off an attack. Then with great clamour men charged and women and household slaves [and children] from the houses (screaming and wailing) assailed them by throwing stones and clay rooftiles, and besides at the same time, much rain had come down during the night, so they were seized with fear and turning their steps, they fled through the city. Most of them, being ignorant in the darkness and the mud of the ways which they should take to save themselves (for these things happened while the moon was waning), and with their pursuers having experience of it, they [were not able] to flee away. Because of this most were killed.


Section 3:

τῶν δὲ Πλαταιῶν τις τὰς πύλας ᾗ ἐσῆλθον καὶ αἵπερ ἦσαν μόναι ἀνεῳγμέναι ἔκλῃσε στυρακίῳ ἀκοντίου ἀντὶ βαλάνου χρησάμενος ἐς τὸν μοχλόν, ὥστε μηδὲ ταύτῃ ἔξοδον ἔτι εἶναι.

Only the gates which they had entered were standing open, and one of the Plataians shut it with his javelin-spike against the bolt-pin, doing what was necessary to the bar, so that not even by this [route] was there still an exit.


Section 4:

διωκόμενοι δὲ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν οἱ μέν τινες αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ τεῖχος ἀναβάντες ἔρριψαν ἐς τὸ ἔξω σφᾶς αὐτοὺς καὶ διεφθάρησαν οἱ πλείους, οἱ δὲ κατὰ πύλας ἐρήμους γυναικὸς δούσης πέλεκυν λαθόντες καὶ διακόψαντες τὸν μοχλὸν ἐξῆλθον οὐ πολλοί （αἴσθησις γὰρ ταχεῖα ἐπεγένετο）, ἄλλοι δὲ ἄλλῃ τῆς πόλεως σποράδες ἀπώλλυντο.

And they were pursued all over the city. Some of them, going up on the wall, cast themselves out, and most were killed, while others, [coming upon] a deserted gate, escaped notice and after a woman gave them an axe, cut through the bar, [but] not many went out (for it came about that they were quickly detected). Meanwhile others, scattered elsewhere in the city, were destroyed utterly.


Section 5:

τὸ δὲ πλεῖστον καὶ ὅσον μάλιστα ἦν ξυνεστραμμένον ἐσπίπτουσιν ἐς οἴκημα μέγα, ὃ ἦν τοῦ τείχους καὶ αἱ θύραι ἀνεῳγμέναι ἔτυχον αὐτοῦ, οἰόμενοι πύλας τὰς θύρας τοῦ οἰκήματος εἶναι καὶ ἄντικρυς δίοδον ἐς τὸ ἔξω.

The most numerous and greatest [group] had gathered together and rushed into a large building, which was beside the wall, and whose doors happened to have been standing open. For they thought the doors of the building to be a gate and a way straight to the outside.


Section 6:

ὁρῶντες δὲ αὐτοὺς οἱ Πλαταιῆς ἀπειλημμένους ἐβουλεύοντο εἴτε κατακαύσωσιν ὥσπερ ἔχουσιν, ἐμπρήσαντες τὸ οἴκημα, εἴτε τι ἄλλο χρήσωνται.

And seeing them [their enemies] thus cut off, the Plataians deliberated over whether they should burn the enemy alive just as they were, burning the building, or if they should do something else.


Section 7:

τέλος δὲ οὗτοί τε καὶ ὅσοι ἄλλοι τῶν Θηβαίων περιῆσαν κατὰ τὴν πόλιν πλανώμενοι, ξυνέβησαν τοῖς Πλαταιεῦσι παραδοῦναι σφᾶς τε αὐτοὺς καὶ τὰ ὅπλα χρήσασθαι ὅτι ἂν βούλωνται.

And at last these, and as many others of the Thebans [who] had remained alive wandering in the city, came to terms with the Plataians, to surrender themselves and their arms [to be done with as they wished] unconditionally.


Section 8:

οἱ μὲν δὴ ἐν τῇ Πλαταίᾳ οὕτως ἐπεπράγεσαν:

So, then, the men in Plataia had fared thus.

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And that's Thucy dealt with for another few days. Oh, the horror.

Book 2, Chapter 1, Section 1:

ἄρχεται δὲ ὁ πόλεμος ἐνθένδε ἤδη Ἀθηναίων καὶ Πελοποννησίων καὶ τῶν ἑκατέροις ξυμμάχων, ἐν ᾧ οὔτε ἐπεμείγνυντο ἔτι ἀκηρυκτεὶ παρ᾽ ἀλλήλους καταστάντες τε ξυνεχῶς ἐπολέμουν: γέγραπται δὲ ἑξῆς ὡς ἕκαστα ἐγίγνετο κατὰ θέρος καὶ χειμῶνα.

And the war of the men of Athens and the men of the Peloponnese and the allies of each thereafter already is beginning, in which neither [side] ever had dealings with each other without flag of truce, and neither [side] ceasing, made war ruinously: he [Thuc] has written for himself in order how everything happened by summer and by winter.

Chapter 2, Section 1:

τέσσαρα μὲν γὰρ καὶ δέκα ἔτη ἐνέμειναν αἱ τριακοντούτεις σπονδαὶ αἳ ἐγένοντο μετ᾽ Εὐβοίας ἅλωσιν: τῷ δὲ πέμπτῳ καὶ δεκάτῳ ἔτει, ἐπὶ Χρυσίδος ἐν Ἄργει τότε πεντήκοντα δυοῖν δέοντα ἔτη ἱερωμένης καὶ Αἰνησίου ἐφόρου ἐν Σπάρτῃ καὶ Πυθοδώρου ἔτι δύο μῆνας ἄρχοντος Ἀθηναίοις, μετὰ τὴν ἐν Ποτειδαίᾳ μάχην μηνὶ ἕκτῳ καὶ ἅμα ἦρι ἀρχομένῳ Θηβαίων ἄνδρες ὀλίγῳ πλείους τριακοσίων （ἡγοῦντο δὲ αὐτῶν βοιωταρχοῦντες Πυθάγγελός τε ὁ Φυλείδου καὶ Διέμπορος ὁ Ὀνητορίδου） ἐσῆλθον περὶ πρῶτον ὕπνον ξὺν ὅπλοις ἐς Πλάταιαν τῆς Βοιωτίας οὖσαν Ἀθηναίων ξυμμαχίδα.

Four and ten years the thirty-years' truce abided after the conquest of Euboia: in the five and tenth year, when Chrysis in Argos was forty-eight years serving as priestess, and during the ephorship of Ainesios in Sparta, and while Pythodoros yet had two months of being archon to the Athenians, in the seventh month after the battle of Potidaia, while spring was just beginning, men of Thebes in [a company numbering] a little more than three hundred (their Boutarchs Pythangelos son of Phyleidos and Diemporos son of Onetoridos commanded) entered about the first sleep [first watch of night] under arms into Plataia, [a town] of Boiotia which was allied to the Athenians.


Chapter 2, Section 2:

[2] ἐπηγάγοντο δὲ καὶ ἀνέῳξαν τὰς πύλας Πλαταιῶν ἄνδρες, Ναυκλείδης τε καὶ οἱ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ, βουλόμενοι ἰδίας ἕνεκα δυνάμεως ἄνδρας τε τῶν πολιτῶν τοὺς σφίσιν ὑπεναντίους διαφθεῖραι καὶ τὴν πόλιν Θηβαίοις προσποιῆσαι.

Some men had been won over and opened the gates of Plataia, Naukleides and those with him, wanting for the sake of their own power to destroy the men of the citizens opposed to them and to make over the city to the Thebans.


Chapter 2, Section 3:

[3] ἔπραξαν δὲ ταῦτα δι᾽ Εὐρυμάχου τοῦ Λεοντιάδου, ἀνδρὸς Θηβαίων δυνατωτάτου. προϊδόντες γὰρ οἱ Θηβαῖοι ὅτι ἔσοιτο ὁ πόλεμος ἐβούλοντο τὴν Πλάταιαν αἰεὶ σφίσι διάφορον οὖσαν ἔτι ἐν εἰρήνῃ τε καὶ τοῦ πολέμου μήπω φανεροῦ καθεστῶτος προκαταλαβεῖν. ᾗ καὶ ῥᾷον ἔλαθον ἐσελθόντες, φυλακῆς οὐ προκαθεστηκυίας.

They did these things because of Eupymachos son of Leontiados, the mightiest man of the Thebans For the Thebans, foreseeing that the war was about to come into being, wanted Plataia, always an adversary to them, which was still at peace, and to occupy it in advance, while the war had not yet been rendered manifest. And by this they more readily escaped notice [achieved surprise], no watch having set.

Chapter 2, Section 4:

[4] θέμενοι δὲ ἐς τὴν ἀγορὰν τὰ ὅπλα τοῖς μὲν ἐπαγαγομένοις οὐκ ἐπείθοντο ὥστε εὐθὺς ἔργου ἔχεσθαι καὶ ἰέναι ἐπὶ τὰς οἰκίας τῶν ἐχθρῶν, γνώμην δ᾽ ἐποιοῦντο κηρύγμασί τε χρήσασθαι ἐπιτηδείοις καὶ ἐς ξύμβασιν μᾶλλον καὶ φιλίαν τὴν πόλιν ἀγαγεῖν （καὶ ἀνεῖπεν ὁ κῆρυξ, εἴ τις βούλεται κατὰ τὰ πάτρια τῶν πάντων Βοιωτῶν ξυμμαχεῖν, τίθεσθαι παρ᾽ αὑτοὺς τὰ ὅπλα）, νομίζοντες σφίσι ῥᾳδίως τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ προσχωρήσειν τὴν πόλιν.

Taking up position in the agora, they were not persuaded by the urgings [of their allies] that they should immediately take part in the work and go to the houses of their enemies, and instead they made a decision to proclaim friendly proclamations and to bring the city more to terms and friendship (and the herald announced, if someone wanted to be in alliance accordingly with the whole fatherland of all the Boiotians, they should take up position alongside them), thinking in this way the city would join them more easily.

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I do not think I can make myself care more about fixing this. The gist, I think I get it. The rest... will come eventually. Fear me, for I am mighty.