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| Keywords: Greek manuscript vetustissimus Thucydides.png Greek manuscript earliest form of minuscule script codex vetustissimus 10th Century Florence Laurentian Library lxix 2 Text from en Thucycdides Peleoponnesian War book 4 chapter 88f Transcription <br/> φίστασθαι θηναίων · καὶ ιστώσαν-<br/> τες αὐτὸν τοῖς ὄρκοις οὕς τὰ τέλη τῶν<br/> λακεδαιμονίων μόσαντα αὐτὸν ἐξέ-<br/> εμψαν ἦ μὴν εὔεσθαι ξυμμάχους αὐ-<br/> τονόμους οὑς ἂν ροσαγάγηται οὕτω<br/> δέχονται τὸν στρατόν· καὶ υ ολὺ ὕ-<br/> στερον καὶ στάγειρος νδρέων οικία<br/> ξυνα έστη· ταῦτα μὲν οῦν ἐν τῶ θέρει<br/> τούτο ἐγένετο· τοῦ δ' ἐ ιγιγνομένου<br/> χειμῶνος ἐυθὺς ρχομένου ὡς τῶ ἱ -<br/> οκράτει καὶ δημοσθένει στρατηγοῖς Translation to revolt from Athens; not however admitting the army until they had taken his personal security for the oaths sworn by his government before they sent him out assuring the independence of the allies whom he might bring over Not long after Stagirus a colony of the Andrians followed their example and revolted Such were the events of this summer It was in the first days of the winter following into the hands of the Athenian generals Hippocrates and Demosthenes Reproduction in Edward Maunde Thompson An Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography Oxford Clarendon 1912 Websource http //www fordham edu/halsall/byzantium/paleog html Paul Halsall Byzantine Paleography Cropped Translation from Wikisource Anonymous 2008-01-26 upload pd-old Greek manuscripts History of the Peloponnesian War | ||||
