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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 · 2026-11-01
The passage lists the Aeolian cities on the mainland (excluding Mount Ida) and those on the islands like Lesbos, noting that while the island cities had nothing to fear, the remaining mainland cities resolved to follow the lead of the Ionians.
αὗται μέν νυν αἱ ἠπειρώτιδες Αἰολίδες πόλιες, ἔξω τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἴδῃ οἰκημενέων· κεχωρίδαται1 γὰρ αὗται.
These, then, are the Aeolian cities of the mainland, excluding those situated on Mount Ida; for these latter are set apart.
αἱ δὲ τὰς νήσους ἔχουσαι πέντε μὲν πόλιες τὴν Λέσβον νέμονται (τὴν γὰρ ἕκτην ἐν τῇ Λέσβῳ οἰκημένην Ἀρίσβαν ἠνδραπόδισαν Μηθυμναῖοι ἐόντας ὁμαίμους),2 ἐν Τενέδῳ δὲ μία οἴκηται πόλις, καὶ ἐν τῇσι Ἑκατὸν νήσοισι καλεομένῃσι ἄλλη μία.
As for those possessing the islands, five cities occupy Lesbos (for the Methymnaeans enslaved Arisba, the sixth city situated on Lesbos, although they were of the same stock), and on Tenedos one city is situated, and another one on the so-called Hundred Islands.
Λεσβίοισι μέν νῦν καὶ Τενεδίοισι, κατά περ Ἰώνων τοῖσι τὰς νήσους ἔχουσι, ἦν δεινὸν οὐδέν· τῇσι δὲ λοιπῇσι πόλισι ἕαδε3 κοινῇ Ἴωσι ἕπεσθαι τῇ ἂν οὗτοι ἐξηγέωνται.4
For the Lesbians and Tenedians, just as for those of the Ionians who possessed the islands, there was nothing to fear; but it was resolved by the remaining cities in common to follow the Ionians wherever these might lead.
- 1.151.1κεχωρίδαται
The Ionic form of the third-person plural perfect passive indicative of the verb χωρίζω, corresponding to the Attic κεχώρισνται. It demonstrates the Ionic dialectal feature where -αται is used instead of -νται.
- 1.151.2ἐόντας ὁμαίμους
The present participle ἐόντας (Ionic for ὄντας, from εἰμί) has a concessive force ("although they were..."). The accusative plural masculine form agrees with the implied inhabitants of the city Arisba (Ἀρίσβαν), which is grammatically feminine singular but treated here as a collective noun representing its people.
- 1.151.3ἕαδε
The psilotic (without rough breathing) Ionic aorist third-person singular of the verb ἁνδάνω (corresponding to the Attic ἥδε), meaning "to please." Here used impersonally ("it pleased / it was resolved"), taking the dative of agent/interest τῇσι δὲ λοιπῇσι πόλισι and the infinitive ἕπεσθαι.
- 1.151.3τῇ ἂν οὗτοι ἐξηγέωνται
An indefinite/general relative clause of direction, consisting of the relative adverb τῇ (in which direction, wherever) with ἄν and the subjunctive ἐξηγέωνται (present subjunctive third-person plural Ionic form of ἐξηγέομαι). It means "wherever they might lead."