Polybius, Histories

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Book 1 - Chapter 73

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<w lemma="%2Aou%29">Οὐ</w> <w lemma="mh%5Cn">μὴν</w> <w lemma="a%29lla%5C">ἀλλὰ</w> <w lemma="kai%2Fper">καίπερ</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="toiou%2Ftois">τοιούτοις</w> <w lemma="kakoi%3Ds">κακοῖς</w> <w lemma="o%29%2Fntes">ὄντες</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="%2Akarxhdo%2Fnioi">Καρχηδόνιοι</w>, <w lemma="prosthsa%2Fmenoi">προστησάμενοι</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29%2Fannwna">Ἄννωνα</w> <w lemma="strathgo%5Cn">στρατηγὸν</w> <w lemma="dia%5C">διὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="dokei%3Dn">δοκεῖν</w> <w lemma="tou%3Dton">τοῦτον</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pro%2Fteron">πρότερον</w> <w lemma="au%29toi%3Ds">αὐτοῖς</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="%2A%28ekatonta%2Fpulon">Ἑκατοντάπυλον</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="%2Alibu%2Fhs">Λιβύης</w> <w lemma="katastre%2Fyasqai">καταστρέψασθαι</w>, <w lemma="sunh%2Fqroizon">συνήθροιζον</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="misqofo%2Frous">μισθοφόρους</w>, <w lemma="kaqw%2Fplizon">καθώπλιζον</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="tai%3Ds">ταῖς</w> <w lemma="h%28liki%2Fais">ἡλικίαις</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="politw%3Dn:">πολιτῶν·</w>
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<w lemma="e%29gu%2Fmnazon">ἐγύμναζον</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="sune%2Ftatton">συνέταττον</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="politikou%5Cs">πολιτικοὺς</w> <w lemma="i%28ppei%3Ds:">ἱππεῖς·</w> <w lemma="pareskeu%2Fazon">παρεσκεύαζον</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="periliph%3D">περιλιπῆ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="ploi%2Fwn">πλοίων</w>, <w lemma="trih%2Freis">τριήρεις</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="penthkonto%2Frous">πεντηκοντόρους</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="ta%5C">τὰ</w> <w lemma="me%2Fgista">μέγιστα</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="a%29kati%2Fwn">ἀκατίων</w>.
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<w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2Ama%2Fqw">Μάθω</w>, <w lemma="paragenome%2Fnwn">παραγενομένων</w> <w lemma="au%29toi%3Ds">αὐτοῖς</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="e%28pta%5C">ἑπτὰ</w> <w lemma="muria%2Fdas">μυριάδας</w> <w lemma="%2Alibu%2Fwn">Λιβύων</w>, <w lemma="e%29pidielo%2Fntes">ἐπιδιελόντες</w> <w lemma="tou%2Ftous">τούτους</w>, <w lemma="a%29sfalw%3Ds">ἀσφαλῶς</w> <w lemma="e%29polio%2Frkoun">ἐπολιόρκουν</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2A%29itukai%2Fous">Ἰτυκαίους</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2A%28ippakri%2Ftas">Ἱππακρίτας</w>, <w lemma="bebai%2Fws">βεβαίως</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="tw%3D%7C">τῷ</w> <w lemma="%2Atu%2Fnhti">Τύνητι</w> <w lemma="stratopedei%2Fan">στρατοπεδείαν</w> <w lemma="katei%3Dxon">κατεῖχον</w>, <w lemma="a%29pokeklei%2Fkesan">ἀποκεκλείκεσαν</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2Akarxhdoni%2Fous">Καρχηδονίους</w> <w lemma="a%28pa%2Fshs">ἁπάσης</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="e%29kto%5Cs">ἐκτὸς</w> <w lemma="%2Alibu%2Fhs">Λιβύης</w>.
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<w lemma="h%28">ἡ</w> <w lemma="ga%5Cr">γὰρ</w> <w lemma="%2Akarxhdw%5Cn">Καρχηδὼν</w> <w lemma="au%29th%5C">αὐτὴ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="ko%2Flpw%7C">κόλπῳ</w> <w lemma="kei%3Dtai">κεῖται</w>, <w lemma="protei%2Fnousa">προτείνουσα</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="xerronhsi%2Fzousa">χερρονησίζουσα</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="qe%2Fsei">θέσει</w>, <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="qala%2Ftth%7C">θαλάττῃ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="de%2F">δέ</w> <w lemma="ti">τι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="li%2Fmnh%7C">λίμνῃ</w> <w lemma="periexome%2Fnh">περιεχομένη</w> <w lemma="kata%5C">κατὰ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="plei%3Dston:">πλεῖστον·</w>
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<w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="suna%2Fptwn">συνάπτων</w> <w lemma="i%29sqmo%5Cs">ἰσθμὸς</w> <w lemma="au%29th%5Cn">αὐτὴν</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="%2Alibu%2Fh%7C">Λιβύῃ</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="pla%2Ftos">πλάτος</w> <w lemma="w%28s">ὡς</w> <w lemma="ei%29%2Fkosi">εἴκοσι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pe%2Fnte">πέντε</w> <w lemma="stadi%2Fwn">σταδίων</w> <w lemma="e%29stin">ἐστιν</w>. <w lemma="tou%2Ftou">τούτου</w> <w lemma="d%27">δ᾽</w> <w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="tou%3D">τοῦ</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="pe%2Flagos">πέλαγος</w> <w lemma="neu%2Fontos">νεύοντος</w> <w lemma="me%2Frous">μέρους</w> <w lemma="ou%29">οὐ</w> <w lemma="makra%5Cn">μακρὰν</w> <w lemma="h%28">ἡ</w> <w lemma="tw%3Dn">τῶν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29itukai%2Fwn">Ἰτυκαίων</w> <w lemma="kei%3Dtai">κεῖται</w> <w lemma="po%2Flis">πόλις</w>, <w lemma="e%29pi%5C">ἐπὶ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="qate%2Frou">θατέρου</w> <w lemma="para%5C">παρὰ</w> <w lemma="th%5Cn">τὴν</w> <w lemma="li%2Fmnhn">λίμνην</w> <w lemma="o%28">ὁ</w> <w lemma="%2Atu%2Fnhs">Τύνης</w>.
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<w lemma="e%29f%27">ἐφ᾽</w> <w lemma="w%28%3Dn">ὧν</w> <w lemma="e%28kate%2Frwn">ἑκατέρων</w> <w lemma="to%2Fte">τότε</w> <w lemma="stratopedeu%2Fsantes">στρατοπεδεύσαντες</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="misqofo%2Froi">μισθοφόροι</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="diaklei%2Fsantes">διακλείσαντες</w> <w lemma="a%29po%5C">ἀπὸ</w> <w lemma="th%3Ds">τῆς</w> <w lemma="xw%2Fras">χώρας</w> <w lemma="tou%5Cs">τοὺς</w> <w lemma="%2Akarxhdoni%2Fous">Καρχηδονίους</w> <w lemma="loipo%5Cn">λοιπὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29pebou%2Fleuon">ἐπεβούλευον</w> <w lemma="au%29th%3D%7C">αὐτῇ</w> <w lemma="th%3D%7C">τῇ</w> <w lemma="po%2Flei">πόλει</w>,
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<w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="pote%5C">ποτὲ</w> <w lemma="me%5Cn">μὲν</w> <w lemma="h%28me%2Fras">ἡμέρας</w>, <w lemma="pote%5C">ποτὲ</w> <w lemma="de%5C">δὲ</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="nu%2Fktwr">νύκτωρ</w> <w lemma="paragino%2Fmenoi">παραγινόμενοι</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="tei%3Dxos">τεῖχος</w> <w lemma="ei%29s">εἰς</w> <w lemma="fo%2Fbous">φόβους</w> <w lemma="kai%5C">καὶ</w> <w lemma="qoru%2Fbous">θορύβους</w> <w lemma="o%28losxe">ὁλοσχε</w>
Yet, although the Carthaginians were in such straits, they first of all appointed Hanno to the command, as he had, they thought, on a former occasion brought matters concerning Hecatompylus in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Libya&groupId=686&placeId=427">Libya</a> to a satisfactory conclusion; they next busied themselves with enrolling mercenaries and arming the citizens of military age.
They also mustered and drilled their civic cavalry and got ready what ships they had left, consisting of triremes, quinqueremes and the largest of their skiffs.
Meanwhile Mathos, when about seventy thousand Libyans had joined him, divided them into several forces with which he maintained unmolested the sieges of Utica and Hippacritae, secured his main camp at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Tunis&groupId=1051&placeId=1849">Tunis</a> and thus shut out the Carthaginians from all outer <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Libya&groupId=686&placeId=427">Libya</a>. <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Carthage&groupId=441&placeId=820">Carthage</a>, I should explain, lies in a gulf,
on a promontory or peninsula surrounded mostly by the sea and in part by a lake.
The isthmus which connects it with <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Libya&groupId=686&placeId=427">Libya</a> is about twenty-five stades in width and on the side of this isthmus which faces the sea, at no great distance from the capital, lies Utica, while <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Tunis&groupId=1051&placeId=1849">Tunis</a> is on the other side by the lake.
So that the mutineers, encamped now as they were before both of these towns and thus shutting off <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Carthage&groupId=441&placeId=820">Carthage</a> from the land, continued to threaten the capital itself, appearing before the walls sometimes by day
and sometimes by night and creating the utmost terror and commotion within.