Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, book 4, chapter 120

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περὶ δὲ τὰς ἡμέρας ταύτας αἷς ἐπήρχοντο Σκιώνη ἐν τῇ Παλλήνῃ πόλις ἀπέστη ἀπ᾽ Ἀθηναίων πρὸς Βρασίδαν. φασὶ δὲ οἱ Σκιωναῖοι Πελληνῆς μὲν εἶναι ἐκ Πελοποννήσου, πλέοντας δ᾽ ἀπὸ Τροίας σφῶν τοὺς πρώτους κατενεχθῆναι ἐς τὸ χωρίον τοῦτο τῷ χειμῶνι ᾧ ἐχρήσαντο Ἀχαιοί, καὶ αὐτοῦ οἰκῆσαι. [2] ἀποστᾶσι δ᾽ αὐτοῖς ὁ Βρασίδας διέπλευσε νυκτὸς ἐς τὴν Σκιώνην, τριήρει μὲν φιλίᾳ προπλεούσῃ, αὐτὸς δὲ ἐν κελητίῳ ἄπωθεν ἐφεπόμενος, ὅπως, εἰ μέν τινι τοῦ κέλητος μείζονι πλοίῳ περιτυγχάνοι, ἡ τριήρης ἀμύνοι αὐτῷ, ἀντιπάλου δὲ ἄλλης τριήρους ἐπιγενομένης οὐ πρὸς τὸ ἔλασσον νομίζων τρέψεσθαι, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν, καὶ ἐν τούτῳ αὑτὸν διασώσειν. [3] περαιωθεὶς δὲ καὶ ξύλλογον ποιήσας τῶν Σκιωναίων ἔλεγεν ἅ τε ἐν τῇ Ἀκάνθῳ καὶ Τορώνῃ, καὶ προσέτι φάσκων ἀξιωτάτους αὐτοὺς εἶναι ἐπαίνου, οἵτινες τῆς Παλλήνης ἐν τῷ ἰσθμῷ ἀπειλημμένης ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων Ποτείδαιαν ἐχόντων καὶ ὄντες οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ νησιῶται αὐτεπάγγελτοι ἐχώρησαν πρὸς τὴν ἐλευθερίαν καὶ οὐκ ἀνέμειναν ἀτολμίᾳ ἀνάγκην σφίσι προσγενέσθαι περὶ τοῦ φανερῶς οἰκείου ἀγαθοῦ: σημεῖόν τ᾽ εἶναι τοῦ καὶ ἄλλο τι ἂν αὐτοὺς τῶν μεγίστων ἀνδρείως ὑπομεῖναι: εἴ τε θήσεται κατὰ νοῦν τὰ πράγματα, πιστοτάτους τε τῇ ἀληθείᾳ ἡγήσεσθαι αὐτοὺς Λακεδαιμονίων φίλους καὶ τἆλλα τιμήσειν.

Thucydides. Historiae in two volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1942.

Commentary references to this page (5):
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.123
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.3
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6, 6.2
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.4
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.36
Cross-references to this page (5):
- Harper's, Sciōné
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), CORO´NA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PALLE´NE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PELLE´NE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SCIO´NE
Cross-references in notes to this page (2):
- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 12.72
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (12):
- LSJ, ἀλήθ-εια
- LSJ, ἀντίπα^λος
- LSJ, αὐτ-επάγγελτος
- LSJ, ἔρχομαι
- LSJ, ἐπέρχομαι
- LSJ, φίλιος
- LSJ, κελήτ-ιον
- LSJ, περαι-όω
- LSJ, περιτυγχάνω
- LSJ, προπλέω
- LSJ, τίθημι
- LSJ, χωρ-έω

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