- Source
- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:1.175.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-01
The Pedasians, living inland above Halicarnassus, experienced a phenomenon where the priestess of Athena grew a beard before impending misfortunes, and they were the only people in Caria to offer prolonged resistance to Harpagus by fortifying Mount Lide.
ἦσαν δὲ Πηδασέες οἰκέοντες ὑπὲρ Ἁλικαρνησσοῦ μεσόγαιαν· τοῖσι1 ὅκως τι μέλλοι ἀνεπιτήδεον ἔσεσθαι, αὐτοῖσί τε καὶ τοῖσι περιοίκοισι, ἡ ἱρείη τῆς Ἀθηναίης πώγωνα μέγαν ἴσχε.2 τρὶς σφι τοῦτο ἐγένετο. οὗτοι τῶν περὶ Καρίην ἀνδρῶν μοῦνοί τε ἀντέσχον χρόνον3 Ἁρπάγῳ καὶ πρήγματα παρέσχον πλεῖστα, ὄρος τειχίσαντες τῷ οὔνομα ἐστὶ Λίδη.
Now the Pedasians inhabited the inland country above Halicarnassus; whenever any misfortune was about to happen to them, both to themselves and to their neighbors, the priestess of Athena grew a great beard. This happened to them three times. These were the only ones among the men about Caria who held out for a time against Harpagus and gave him the greatest trouble, having fortified a mountain named Lide.
- 1.175.1τοῖσι
This τοῖσι is a dative demonstrative (or a substitute for a relative pronoun) functioning as a dative of interest, which stands in apposition to the subsequent αὐτοῖσί τε καὶ τοῖσι περιοίκοισι (both to themselves and to their neighbors). The optative μέλλοι in the following ὅκως clause expresses a past general or iterative condition ('whenever...').
- 1.175.1ἴσχε
This is the imperfect of ἴσχω (an intensive or frequentative form related to ἔχω), expressing an iterative or inceptive aspect ('began to have' or 'would grow [a beard]') showing that the supernatural phenomenon occurred repeatedly on each occasion.
- 1.175.1χρόνον
The accusative singular of the noun for 'time,' functioning here as an accusative of duration of time, meaning 'for a time' or 'for some period.'