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115.

οἱ δ᾽ ἐν τῇ Σικελίᾳ Ἀθηναῖοι τοῦ αὐτοῦ χειμῶνος ἔς τε τὴν Ἱμεραίαν ἀπόβασιν ἐποιήσαντο ἐκ τῶν νεῶν μετὰ τῶν Σικελῶν τῶν ἄνωθεν ἐσβεβληκότων ἐς τὰ ἔσχατα τῆς Ἱμεραίας, καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς Αἰόλου νήσους ἔπλευσαν. [2] ἀναχωρήσαντες δὲ ἐς Ῥήγιον Πυθόδωρον τὸν Ἰσολόχου Ἀθηναίων στρατηγὸν καταλαμβάνουσιν ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς διάδοχον ὧν Λάχης ἦρχεν. [3] οἱ γὰρ ἐν Σικελίᾳ ξύμμαχοι πλεύσαντες ἔπεισαν τοὺς Ἀθηναίους βοηθεῖν σφίσι πλείοσι ναυσίν: τῆς μὲν γὰρ γῆς αὐτῶν οἱ Συρακόσιοι ἐκράτουν, τῆς δὲ θαλάσσης ὀλίγαις ναυσὶν εἰργόμενοι παρεσκευάζοντο ναυτικὸν ξυναγείροντες ὡς οὐ περιοψόμενοι. [4] καὶ ἐπλήρουν ναῦς τεσσαράκοντα οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ὡς ἀποστελοῦντες αὐτοῖς, ἅμα μὲν ἡγούμενοι θᾶσσον τὸν ἐκεῖ πόλεμον καταλυθήσεσθαι, ἅμα δὲ βουλόμενοι μελέτην τοῦ ναυτικοῦ ποιεῖσθαι. [5] τὸν μὲν οὖν ἕνα τῶν στρατηγῶν ἀπέστειλαν Πυθόδωρον ὀλίγαις ναυσί, Σοφοκλέα δὲ τὸν Σωστρατίδου καὶ Εὐρυμέδοντα τὸν Θουκλέους ἐπὶ τῶν πλειόνων νεῶν ἀποπέμψειν ἔμελλον. [6] δὲ Πυθόδωρος ἤδη ἔχων τὴν τοῦ Λάχητος τῶν νεῶν ἀρχὴν ἔπλευσε τελευτῶντος τοῦ χειμῶνος ἐπὶ τὸ Λοκρῶν φρούριον πρότερον Λάχης εἷλε, καὶ νικηθεὶς μάχῃ ὑπὸ τῶν Λοκρῶν ἀπεχώρησεν.

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  • Commentary references to this page (8):
    • E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.86
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.116
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.85
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.88
    • Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.99
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER I
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER II
    • C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XXV
  • Cross-references to this page (4):
    • Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE CASES
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), STRATE´GUS
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LOCRI
    • Smith's Bio, Eury'medon
  • Cross-references in notes to this page (4):
    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, introduction.19
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 4.2
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 6.1
    • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 6.6
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