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3. οἱ δ᾽ Ἀθηναῖοιἦσαν γὰρ τεταλαιπωρημένοι ὑπό τε τῆς νόσου καὶ τοῦ πολέμου ἄρτι καθισταμένου καὶ ἀκμάζοντοςμέγα μὲν ἔργον ἡγοῦντο εἶναι Λέσβον προσπολεμώσασθαι ναυτικὸν ἔχουσαν καὶ δύναμιν ἀκέραιον, καὶ οὐκ ἀπεδέχοντο τὸ πρῶτον τὰς κατηγορίας, μεῖζον μέρος νέμοντες τῷ μὴ βούλεσθαι ἀληθῆ εἶναι: ἐπειδὴ μέντοι καὶ πέμψαντες πρέσβεις οὐκ ἔπειθον τοὺς Μυτιληναίους τήν τε ξυνοίκισιν καὶ τὴν παρασκευὴν διαλύειν, δείσαντες προκαταλαβεῖν ἐβούλοντο. [2] καὶ πέμπουσιν ἐξαπιναίως τεσσαράκοντα ναῦς αἳ ἔτυχον περὶ Πελοπόννησον παρεσκευασμέναι πλεῖν: Κλεϊππίδης δὲ Δεινίου τρίτος αὐτὸς ἐστρατήγει. [3] ἐσηγγέλθη γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὡς εἴη Ἀπόλλωνος Μαλόεντος ἔξω τῆς πόλεως ἑορτή, ἐν πανδημεὶ Μυτιληναῖοι ἑορτάζουσι, καὶ ἐλπίδα εἶναι ἐπειχθέντας ἐπιπεσεῖν ἄφνω, καὶ ἢν μὲν ξυμβῇ πεῖρα: εἰ δὲ μή, Μυτιληναίοις εἰπεῖν ναῦς τε παραδοῦναι καὶ τείχη καθελεῖν, μὴ πειθομένων δὲ πολεμεῖν. [4] καὶ αἱ μὲν νῆες ᾤχοντο: τὰς δὲ τῶν Μυτιληναίων δέκα τριήρεις, αἳ ἔτυχον βοηθοὶ παρὰ σφᾶς κατὰ τὸ ξυμμαχικὸν παροῦσαι, κατέσχον οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ τοὺς ἄνδρας ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐς φυλακὴν ἐποιήσαντο. [5] τοῖς δὲ Μυτιληναίοις ἀνὴρ ἐκ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν διαβὰς ἐς Εὔβοιαν καὶ πεζῇ ἐπὶ Γεραιστὸν ἐλθών, ὁλκάδος ἀναγομένης ἐπιτυχών, πλῷ χρησάμενος καὶ τριταῖος ἐκ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν ἐς Μυτιλήνην ἀφικόμενος ἀγγέλλει τὸν ἐπίπλουν. οἱ δὲ οὔτε ἐς τὸν Μαλόεντα ἐξῆλθον, τά τε ἄλλα τῶν τειχῶν καὶ λιμένων περὶ τὰ ἡμιτέλεστα φαρξάμενοι ἐφύλασσον.

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  • Commentary references to this page (26):
    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae, 359
    • E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.10
    • E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.4
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.18
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.2
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.22
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.32
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.34
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.36
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.39
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.4
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.48
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.6
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.68
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.78
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.8
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.91
    • T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.1
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XIII
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XXVII
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXVII
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.57
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.67
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.82
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.89
    • E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.137
  • Cross-references to this page (7):
    • Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
    • Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.1
    • Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.2
    • Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.4
    • Harper's, Geraestus
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), GERAESTUS
    • William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
  • Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 1.77
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (18):
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