Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.47.1 · 2.47.1
The end of the first year
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τοιόσδε μὲν ὁ τάφος ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ χειμῶνι τούτῳ· καὶ διελθόντος αὐτοῦ πρῶτον ἔτος τοῦ πολέμου τοῦδε ἐτελεύτα.
Such was the funeral that took place in this winter. When the winter had passed, the first year of this war came to its end.
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The winter of the Funeral Oration ends, and with it the first year of the war.
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The sentence is a closing formula. Toiosde men ho taphos egeneto, "such was the burial," sums up the public funeral and the Funeral Oration that came with it, and the particle men leaves the sentence open for the kai clause that follows. The word taphos means a burial or a grave, and the Greek does not mention the speech at all.
The second half dates the event in the way Thucydides dates everything, by seasons. The genitive absolute dielthontos autou, "it having passed through," refers back to the winter, and the imperfect eteleuta shows the year drawing to a close, not a single point of ending. His war is counted in summers and winters, and prōton etos, "first year," tells us the count has begun.
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