Ἀρχιδάμιος πόλεμος

Archidamian war

Translated by David Whitehead10 Oct 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 24 words
The first [ten] years of the Peloponnesian war were called [the] Archidamian war,1 from the fact that Archidamus invaded Attica [sc. in these years].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀρχιδάμιος πόλεμος· τοῦ Πελοποννησιακοῦ πολέμου τὰ πρῶτα ἔτη Ἀρχιδάμιος ἐκλήθη πόλεμος, ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀρχίδαμον εἰς τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἐμβαλεῖν.

Betacode
*)arxida/mios po/lemos: tou= *peloponnhsiakou= pole/mou ta\ prw=ta e)/th *)arxida/mios e)klh/qh po/lemos, a)po\ tou= *)arxi/damon ei)s th\n *)attikh\n e)mbalei=n.

Notes (2)

  1. 1That is, 431-421 BCE. The "ten" is not merely an appropriate modern gloss but actually occurs in the entry in Harpokration s.v. (generated by the headword phrase's occurrence in oratory: Lysias fr. 18 Sauppe [now 17 Carey OCT]; Dinarchus fr. V.3 Conomis), which the Suda is abridging. Compare anyway beta 519. ↩
  2. 2A rather misleading compression. Annual Spartan invasions of Attica were certainly a feature of this phase of the war (or at least the first half of it), but King Archidamos II (d.427) led only three of them (431, 430, 428). ↩

References


OCD(4) p.140 (for both "Archidamian War" and King Archidamus of Sparta himself).

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Revision history7 revisions · last 1 Sep 2015
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
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  3. updated notes; another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
  5. added keyword, set status — William Hutton
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