- 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-grc2:1.39.1-1.39.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-28
Atys persuades his father Croesus to let him go, arguing that the dream foretold death by an iron spear, whereas the wild boar they are to hunt has neither hands nor a spear to harm him.
ἀμείβεται ὁ νεηνίης τοῖσιδε. συγγνώμη μὲν ὦ πάτερ τοι, ἰδόντι1 γε ὄψιν τοιαύτην, περὶ ἐμὲ φυλακὴν ἔχειν· τὸ δὲ οὐ μανθάνεις ἀλλὰ λέληθέ σε τὸ ὄνειρον,2 ἐμέ τοί δίκαιον ἐστί φράζειν.
The young man answered with these words: “Father, it is indeed pardonable for you, having seen such a vision, to keep guard over me. But as for that which you do not understand, and which has escaped you in the dream, it is right for me to explain this to you.
φής τοι τὸ ὄνειρον ὑπὸ αἰχμῆς σιδηρέης φάναι ἐμὲ τελευτήσειν. ὑὸς3 δὲ κοῖαι μὲν εἰσὶ χεῖρες, κοίη δὲ αἰχμὴ σιδηρέη τὴν σὺ φοβέαι; εἰ μὲν γὰρ ὑπὸ ὀδόντος τοι εἶπε τελευτήσειν με, ἢ ἄλλου τευ ὅ τι τούτῳ ἔοικε, χρῆν δή σε ποιέειν τὰ ποιέεις·4 νῦν δὲ ὑπὸ αἰχμῆς. ἐπείτε ὦν οὐ πρὸς ἄνδρας ἡμῖν γίνεται ἡ μάχη, μέτες με.
You say that the dream declared that I should perish by an iron spearpoint. But what kind of hands does a boar have, and what kind of iron spearpoint is it that you fear? For if it had said that I should perish by a tusk, or by something else that resembles it, you ought indeed to do what you are doing; but as it is, it said by a spearpoint. Since, then, our fight is not against men, let me go.”
- 1.39.1ἰδόντι
Aorist active participle agreeing with the dative second-person pronoun τοι (σοί), expressing cause ('since you have seen such a vision').
- 1.39.1τὸ δὲ οὐ μανθάνεις ἀλλὰ λέληθέ σε τὸ ὄνειρον
τὸ δέ is a neuter singular accusative relative or demonstrative pronoun acting as an accusative of respect ('but as for that which you do not understand and which has escaped you in the dream'), leading into the main clause.
- 1.39.2ὑὸς
Genitive singular of ὗς (wild boar), functioning as a possessive/limiting genitive qualifying the following noun χεῖρες (hands). Ionic form.
- 1.39.2χρῆν δή σε ποιέειν τὰ ποιέεις
The apodosis of a contrary-to-fact conditional. The imperfect tense of the impersonal verb expressing obligation χρῆν is used without the particle ἄν to express what ought to have been done (but in fact is not necessary).