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Headword: Archidamios polemos
Adler number: alpha,4108
Translated headword: Archidamian war
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
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:
Archidamios polemos: tou Peloponnêsiakou polemou ta prôta etê Archidamios eklêthê polemos, apo tou Archidamon eis tên Attikên embalein.
Notes:
[1] That 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] A 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).
Reference:
OCD(4) p.140 (for both "Archidamian War" and King Archidamus of Sparta himself).
Keywords: biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2000@10:08:18.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 25 August 2002@11:47:29.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 25 August 2002@11:49:13.
William Hutton (added keyword, set status) on 28 June 2003@05:12:14.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 28 June 2003@05:27:32.
David Whitehead (updated notes; another keyword; tweaking) on 30 June 2011@10:55:36.
David Whitehead on 31 July 2014@04:09:03.
David Whitehead on 1 September 2015@03:42:52.

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