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Ποτειδεᾶται δὲ πέμψαντες μὲν καὶ παρ᾽ Ἀθηναίους πρέσβεις, εἴ πως πείσειαν μὴ σφῶν πέρι νεωτερίζειν μηδέν, ἐλθόντες δὲ καὶ ἐς τὴν Λακεδαίμονα μετὰ Κορινθίων, [ἔπρασσον] ὅπως ἑτοιμάσαιντο τιμωρίαν, ἢν δέῃ, ἐπειδὴ ἔκ τε Ἀθηνῶν ἐκ πολλοῦ πράσσοντες οὐδὲν ηὕροντο ἐπιτήδειον, ἀλλ᾽ αἱ νῆες αἱ ἐπὶ Μακεδονίαν καὶ ἐπὶ σφᾶς ὁμοίως ἔπλεον, καὶ τὰ τέλη τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ὑπέσχετο αὐτοῖς, ἢν ἐπὶ Ποτείδαιαν ἴωσιν Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐς τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἐσβαλεῖν, τότε δὴ κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον ἀφίστανται μετὰ Χαλκιδέων καὶ Βοττιαίων κοινῇ ξυνομόσαντες. [2] καὶ Περδίκκας πείθει Χαλκιδέας τὰς ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ πόλεις ἐκλιπόντας καὶ καταβαλόντας ἀνοικίσασθαι ἐς Ὄλυνθον μίαν τε πόλιν ταύτην ἰσχυρὰν ποιήσασθαι: τοῖς τ᾽ ἐκλιποῦσι τούτοις τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γῆς τῆς Μυγδονίας περὶ τὴν Βόλβην λίμνην ἔδωκε νέμεσθαι, ἕως ἂν πρὸς Ἀθηναίους πόλεμος . καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀνῳκίζοντό τε καθαιροῦντες τὰς πόλεις καὶ ἐς πόλεμον παρεσκευάζοντο:

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  • Commentary references to this page (10):
    • W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.123
    • E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.2
    • T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.31
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XV
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LIV
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXXIX
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.18
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.26
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.30
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.80
  • Cross-references to this page (6):
    • Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.2
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), E´PHORI
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), BOLBE
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MYGDO´NIA
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), OLYNTHUS
    • William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
  • Cross-references in notes to this page (4):
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 1.71
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 5.18
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 5.30
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 5.80
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