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93. τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τὴν πόλιν ἐτείχισαν ἐν ὀλίγῳ χρόνῳ.
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καὶ δήλη ἡ οἰκοδομία ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἐστὶν ὅτι κατὰ σπουδὴν ἐγένετο: οἱ γὰρ θεμέλιοι παντοίων λίθων ὑπόκεινται καὶ οὐ ξυνειργασμένων ἔστιν ᾗ, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἕκαστόν ποτε προσέφερον, πολλαί τε στῆλαι ἀπὸ σημάτων καὶ λίθοι εἰργασμένοι ἐγκατελέγησαν. μείζων γὰρ ὁ περίβολος πανταχῇ ἐξήχθη τῆς πόλεως, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πάντα ὁμοίως κινοῦντες ἠπείγοντο.
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ἔπεισε δὲ καὶ τοῦ Πειραιῶς τὰ λοιπὰ ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆς οἰκοδομεῖν (ὑπῆρκτο δ᾽ αὐτοῦ πρότερον ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκείνου ἀρχῆς ἧς κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν Ἀθηναίοις ἦρξε) νομίζων τό τε χωρίον καλὸν εἶναι, λιμένας ἔχον τρεῖς αὐτοφυεῖς, καὶ αὐτοὺς ναυτικοὺς γεγενημένους μέγα προφέρειν ἐς τὸ
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κτήσασθαι δύναμιν (τῆς γὰρ δὴ θαλάσσης πρῶτος ἐτόλμησεν εἰπεῖν ὡς ἀνθεκτέα ἐστί), καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν εὐθὺς ξυγκατεσκεύαζεν.
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καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν τῇ ἐκείνου γνώμῃ τὸ πάχος τοῦ τείχους ὅπερ νῦν ἔτι δῆλόν ἐστι περὶ τὸν Πειραιᾶ: δύο γὰρ ἅμαξαι ἐναντίαι ἀλλήλαις τοὺς λίθους ἐπῆγον. ἐντὸς δὲ οὔτε χάλιξ οὔτε πηλὸς ἦν, ἀλλὰ ξυνῳκοδομημένοι μεγάλοι λίθοι καὶ ἐντομῇ ἐγγώνιοι, σιδήρῳ πρὸς ἀλλήλους τὰ ἔξωθεν καὶ μολύβδῳ δεδεμένοι. τὸ δὲ ὕψος ἥμισυ μάλιστα ἐτελέσθη οὗ διενοεῖτο.
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ἐβούλετο γὰρ τῷ μεγέθει καὶ τῷ πάχει ἀφιστάναι τὰς τῶν πολεμίων ἐπιβουλάς, ἀνθρώπων τε ἐνόμιζεν ὀλίγων καὶ τῶν ἀχρειοτάτων ἀρκέσειν τὴν φυλακήν, τοὺς δ᾽ ἄλλους ἐς τὰς ναῦς ἐσβήσεσθαι.
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ταῖς γὰρ ναυσὶ μάλιστα προσέκειτο, ἰδών, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, τῆς βασιλέως στρατιᾶς τὴν κατὰ θάλασσαν ἔφοδον εὐπορωτέραν τῆς κατὰ γῆν οὖσαν: τόν τε Πειραιᾶ ὠφελιμώτερον ἐνόμιζε τῆς ἄνω πόλεως, καὶ πολλάκις τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις παρῄνει, ἢν ἄρα ποτὲ κατὰ γῆν βιασθῶσι, καταβάντας ἐς αὐτὸν ταῖς ναυσὶ πρὸς ἅπαντας ἀνθίστασθαι.
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Ἀθηναῖοι μὲν οὖν οὕτως ἐτειχίσθησαν καὶ τἆλλα κατεσκευάζοντο εὐθὺς μετὰ τὴν Μήδων ἀναχώρησιν.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 566
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 6.116
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.143
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, PEIRAEUS or Peiraieus, Attica, Greece.
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, PARTICLES
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- Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, Aeschin. 3 236
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 1.131
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- LSJ, ἄμαξα
- LSJ, ἄρα^
- LSJ, ἀφίστημι
- LSJ, ἀνθεκτέον
- LSJ, ἀνθ-ίστημι
- LSJ, ἀχρεῖος
- LSJ, αὐτο-φυ^ής
- LSJ, ἔφοδ-ος
- LSJ, ἐξάγω
- LSJ, ἐγγώνιος
- LSJ, ἐγκατα-λέγω
- LSJ, ἐναντίος
- LSJ, ἐνι^-αυτός
- LSJ, ἐντομ-ή
- LSJ, ἐπάγω
- LSJ, ἐπιβολ-ή
- LSJ, ἐργάζομαι
- LSJ, εὔπορ-ος
- LSJ, ἥμι^συς
- LSJ, κατασκευ-άζω
- LSJ, μάλα
- LSJ, μόλυβδος
- LSJ, οἰκοδομ-ία
- LSJ, πάχος
- LSJ, πρόσκειμαι
- LSJ, προφέρω
- LSJ, θάλασσα
- LSJ, θεμέλι^-ος
- LSJ, σῆμα
- LSJ, σπουδή
- LSJ, στήλη
- LSJ, συγκατα-σκευάζω
- LSJ, συνεργ-άζομαι
- LSJ, συνοικο-δομέω
- LSJ, τεῖχος
- LSJ, τειχ-ίζω
- LSJ, τομ-εύω
- LSJ, ὑπάρχω
- LSJ, ὑπόκειμαι
- LSJ, ὠφέλ-ι^μος
- LSJ, χάλιξ
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