Φρουρήσεις ἐν Ναυπάκτῳ
you will serve in the Naupaktos garrison
Translated by David Whitehead22 Nov 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Given that those garrisoning Naupaktos received low pay yet had to buy high-priced necessities, the proverb [is said] to have arisen.1 Others, though, [maintain] that after Philip had taken Naupaktos he killed all its garrison-troops, on a resolution of the Achaeans. Theopompus in his second [book] also tells this story.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φρουρήσεις ἐν Ναυπάκτῳ· τοῖς Ναύπακτον φρουροῦσιν ὀλίγου μισθοῦ διδομένου, τῶν δ' ἐπιτηδείων πολλοῦ πιπρασκομένων, τὴν παροιμίαν γενέσθαι. ἔνιοι δέ, ὅτι Φίλιππος ἑλὼν Ναύπακτον Ἀχαιῶν γνώμῃ τοὺς φρουροὺς αὐτῆς ἀπέκτεινε πάντας. ἱστορεῖ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ Θεόπομπος ἐν δευτέρῳ.
Betacode
*frourh/seis e)n *naupa/ktw|: toi=s *nau/pakton frourou=sin o)li/gou misqou= didome/nou, tw=n d' e)pithdei/wn pollou= pipraskome/nwn, th\n paroimi/an gene/sqai. e)/nioi de/, o(/ti *fi/lippos e(lw\n *nau/pakton *)axaiw=n gnw/mh| tou\s frourou\s au)th=s a)pe/kteine pa/ntas. i(storei= de\ tou=to kai\ *qeo/pompos e)n deute/rw|.
Notes (2)
- 1Naupaktos lies at the mouth of the Corinthian Gulf, on its northern side; see nu 66. In the 450s BCE the Athenians garrisoned it with refugee Messenian helots, and that state of affairs, lasting for half a century, is presumably the context invoked here. ↩
- 2Theopompus FGrH 115 F235; cf. Zenobius 6.33. See Demosthenes 9.34 (web address 1), with N.G.L. Hammond and G.T. Griffith, A History of Macedonia, ii (Oxford 1979) 509. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 18 Dec 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented n.1; more keywords — David Whitehead
- Added link; added italics; cosmetics — Elizabeth Vandiver
- augmented note — David Whitehead
- Translated — David Whitehead