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- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-31
Describes how the settlers in Miletus established kings of Lycian and Pylian descent, and defines Ionians as those descended from Athens who celebrate the festival of Apaturia.
ταῦτα δὲ ἦν γινόμενα ἐν Μιλήτῳ. βασιλέας δὲ ἐστήσαντο οἳ μὲν αὐτῶν Λυκίους ἀπὸ Γλαύκου τοῦ Ἱππολόχου γεγονότας, οἳ δὲ Καύκωνας Πυλίους ἀπὸ Κόδρου τοῦ Μελάνθου, οἳ δὲ καὶ συναμφοτέρους. ἀλλὰ γὰρ περιέχονται1 τοῦ οὐνόματος μᾶλλόν τι τῶν ἄλλων Ἰώνων, ἔστωσαν2 δὴ καὶ οἱ καθαρῶς γεγονότες Ἴωνες.
Now these things were what took place in Miletus. As for kings, some of them established Lycians descended from Glaucus the son of Hippolochus, others Pylian Caucones descended from Codrus the son of Melanthus, and others indeed both. But since they cling to the name more than any of the other Ionians, let them indeed be considered the Ionians of pure descent.
εἰσὶ δὲ πάντες Ἴωνες ὅσοι ἀπʼ Ἀθηνέων γεγόνασι καὶ Ἀπατούρια ἄγουσι ὁρτήν. ἄγουσι δὲ πάντες πλὴν Ἐφεσίων καὶ Κολοφωνίων· οὗτοι γὰρ μοῦνοι Ἰώνων οὐκ ἄγουσι Ἀπατούρια, καὶ οὗτοι κατὰ φόνου τινὰ σκῆψιν.3
And all those are Ionians who are descended from Athens and celebrate the festival of Apaturia. Indeed, all celebrate it except for the Ephesians and Colophonians; for these alone of the Ionians do not celebrate the Apaturia, and this because of some pretext of murder.
- 1.147.1περιέχονται
The middle-voice verb περιέχομαι taking the genitive (τοῦ οὐνόματος), meaning "to cling to" or "to hold fast to" something.
- 1.147.1ἔστωσαν
The third-person plural present imperative of the verb εἰμί. It has a concessive force here, meaning "let them be [considered/assumed to be]...".
- 1.147.2κατὰ φόνου τινὰ σκῆψιν
The preposition κατὰ governs the accusative noun σκῆψιν ("pretext"), which is modified by the genitive noun φόνου ("of murder"), meaning "according to some pretext of murder."