Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SECOND BOOK, chapter 17

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17. After they came into Athens, there was habitation for a few and place of retire with some friends or kindred. But the greatest part seated themselves in the empty places of the city and in temples and in all the chapels of the heroes, saving in such as were in the citadel and the Eleusinium and other places strongly shut up. The Pelasgicum also under the citadel, though it were a thing accursed to dwell in it and forbidden by the end of a verse in a Pythian oracle in these words, ‘Best is the Pelasgicum empty,’ was nevertheless for the present necessity inhabited. [2] And in my opinion, this prophecy now fell out contrary to what was looked for. For the unlawful dwelling there caused not the calamities that befell the city, but the war caused the necessity of dwelling there, which war the oracle, not naming, foretold only that it should one day be inhabited unfortunately. [3]

Many also furnished the turrets of the walls and whatsoever other place they could any of them get. For when they were come in, the city had not place for them all; but afterwards they had the long walls divided amongst them and inhabited there and in most parts of Piraeus. [4] Withal they applied themselves to the business of the war, levying their confederates and making ready a hundred galleys to send about Peloponnesus. [5] Thus were the Athenians preparing.

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 27
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 5.64
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.13
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.36
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.62
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XCVII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.10
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.23
- Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.27
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.110
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.118
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.13
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.76
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, Introduction
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.39
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.62
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ATHE´NAE
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators, 1.45
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 3.17
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- LSJ, Πυ_θικός
- LSJ, δή
- LSJ, ἀκρο-τελεύτιον
- LSJ, βέβαιος
- LSJ, ἐξαρτ-ύω
- LSJ, ἐξοικ-έω
- LSJ, ἐνοίκ-ησις
- LSJ, ἐπάρα_τος
- LSJ, ἐπίπλοος
- LSJ, ἐρῆμος
- LSJ, ἡρῷον
- LSJ, κατανέμω
- LSJ, κατασκευ-άζω
- LSJ, κατοικ-ίζω
- LSJ, κλειστός
- LSJ, μαντ-εῖον
- LSJ, μή
- LSJ, πα^ρά
- LSJ, παράνομ-ος
- LSJ, παρασκευ-ή
- LSJ, παραχρῆμα
- LSJ, πελαργ-ικός
- LSJ, πρόοιδα
- LSJ, πρός
- LSJ, πύργος
- LSJ, σηκ-ός
- LSJ, συμβαίνω
- LSJ, τις
- LSJ, ὑπό
- LSJ, χωρ-έω

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