- 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-grc2:1.23.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-28
Relates that during the reign of Periander, tyrant of Corinth, the greatest wonder occurred: the famous citharode Arion was carried to Taenarum on a dolphin.
Περίανδρος δὲ ἦν Κυψέλου παῖς οὗτος1 ὁ τῷ2 Θρασυβούλῳ τὸ χρηστήριον μηνύσας· ἐτυράννευε δὲ ὁ Περίανδρος Κορίνθου· τῷ δὴ λέγουσι Κορίνθιοι (ὁμολογέουσι δέ σφι Λέσβιοι) ἐν τῷ βίῳ θῶμα μέγιστον παραστῆναι, Ἀρίονα τὸν Μηθυμναῖον ἐπὶ δελφῖνος ἐξενειχθέντα ἐπὶ Ταίναρον, ἐόντα κιθαρῳδὸν τῶν τότε ἐόντων οὐδενὸς δεύτερον, καὶ διθύραμβον πρῶτον ἀνθρώπων τῶν ἡμεῖς ἴδμεν3 ποιήσαντά τε καὶ ὀνομάσαντα καὶ διδάξαντα ἐν Κορίνθῳ.
This Periander, who had revealed the oracle to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and he was the tyrant of Corinth. To him, as the Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree with them), there occurred in his lifetime a most wonderful thing: namely, that Arion of Methymna was carried ashore at Taenarum on a dolphin’s back. This Arion was a citharode second to none of those of his time, and the first of all men whom we know to have composed, named, and taught the dithyramb in Corinth.
- 1.23.1οὗτος
The demonstrative pronoun οὗτος refers back to Periander, who has already been introduced in the preceding chapters (e.g., 1.20), meaning 'this (aforementioned) Periander.'
- 1.23.1τῷ
Dative of the relative (or demonstrative) pronoun, referring to Periander. It functions either as the dative object of παραστῆναι ('to happen to/befall him') or as a dative of time/interest ('in his time').
- 1.23.1τῶν ἡμεῖς ἴδμεν
Genitive relative clause. ἴδμεν is the Ionic and Homeric form for ἴσμεν (1st person plural present of οἶδα), meaning 'of whom we know.' The relative pronoun is attracted to the case of its antecedent ἀνθρώπων (attraction of the relative).