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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 · 2026-10-28
Describes the eleven-year war waged by the Lydian kings Sadyattes and Alyattes against Miletus. It notes that only the Chians aided the Milesians in this war.
ταῦτα ποιέων ἐπολέμεε ἔτεα ἕνδεκα, ἐν τοῖσι τρώματα μεγάλα διφάσια Μιλησίων ἐγένετο, ἔν τε Λιμενηίῳ χώρης τῆς σφετέρης μαχεσαμένων1 καὶ ἐν Μαιάνδρου πεδίῳ.
Doing these things, he waged war for eleven years, in the course of which two great defeats befell the Milesians, when they fought both at Limeneion in their own territory and in the plain of the Maeander.
τὰ μέν νυν ἓξ ἔτεα τῶν ἕνδεκα Σαδυάττης ὁ Ἄρδυος ἔτι Λυδῶν ἦρχε, ὁ καὶ ἐσβάλλων τηνικαῦτα ἐς τὴν Μιλησίην τὴν στρατιήν· Σαδυάττης οὗτος γὰρ καὶ ὁ τὸν πόλεμον ἦν συνάψας· τὰ δὲ πέντε τῶν ἐτέων τὰ ἑπόμενα τοῖσι ἓξ Ἀλυάττης ὁ Σαδυάττεω ἐπολέμεε, ὃς παραδεξάμενος, ὡς καὶ πρότερον μοι δεδήλωται, παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τὸν πόλεμον προσεῖχε2 ἐντεταμένως.
Now, for six years of the eleven, Sadyattes, the son of Ardys, was still ruling the Lydians, and he was the one who at that time was invading the territory of Miletus with his army; for this Sadyattes was also the one who had joined the war. For the five years following those six, Alyattes, the son of Sadyattes, carried on the war, who, having inherited the war from his father, as has also been shown by me earlier, applied himself to it vigorously.
τοῖσι δὲ Μιλησίοισι οὐδαμοὶ Ἰώνων τὸν πόλεμον τοῦτον συνεπελάφρυνον ὅτι μὴ3 Χῖοι μοῦνοι. οὗτοι δὲ τὸ ὅμοιον ἀνταποδιδόντες ἐτιμώρεον· καὶ γὰρ δὴ πρότερον οἱ Μιλήσιοι τοῖσι Χίοισι τὸν πρὸς Ἐρυθραίους πόλεμον συνδιήνεικαν.4
No one of the Ionians helped to lighten this war for the Milesians, except the Chians alone. These rendered aid to return the like; for indeed earlier the Milesians had helped the Chians carry through to the end their war against the Erythraeans.
- 1.18.1μαχεσαμένων
Participle (aorist middle/deponent) agreeing with the genitive noun Μιλησίων. It functions circumstantially/temporally, meaning 'when they fought'.
- 1.18.2προσεῖχε
Imperfect of προσέχω, used idiomatically with the omission of the accusative direct object τὸν νοῦν ('mind' or 'attention'), meaning 'he applied himself' or 'he was intent on (the war)'.
- 1.18.3ὅτι μὴ
An idiomatic conjunctional phrase used after negatives (here οὐδαμοὶ) to mean 'except' or 'save only'.
- 1.18.3συνδιήνεικαν
Ionic aorist form of συνδιαφέρω. Used with the dative (τοῖσι Χίοισι) and accusative (τὸν... πόλεμον) to mean 'to help bear/wage a war together' or 'to carry a war through to the end with someone'.