Monday, December 12, 2022
Terrible Scenes
Diodorus Siculus 17.13.6 (Battle of Thebes, 335 BC; tr. Robin Waterfield):
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The city therefore witnessed terrible scenes: Greeks were being slaughtered without mercy by fellow Greeks, men murdered by their close kin, and no hand was stayed by hearing the same language spoken.
διὸ καὶ πάθη πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ὁρᾶν ἦν γινόμενα· Ἕλληνες γὰρ ὑφ᾽ Ἑλλήνων ἀνηλεῶς ἀνῃροῦντο καὶ συγγενεῖς ὑπὸ τῶν κατὰ γένος προσηκόντων ἐφονεύοντο, μηδεμίαν ἐντροπὴν τῆς ὁμοφώνου διαλέκτου παρεχομένης.
