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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 · 2026-10-29
Records Croesus' dedication of a golden shield and spear to Amphiaraus after learning of his valour and fate, noting that they remained in the temple of Ismenian Apollo at Thebes in Herodotus' day.
ταῦτα μὲν ἐς Δελφοὺς ἀπέπεμψε, τῷ δὲ Ἀμφιάρεῳ, πυθόμενος αὐτοῦ τήν τε ἀρετὴν καὶ τὴν πάθην, ἀνέθηκε σάκος τε χρύσεον πᾶν ὁμοίως καὶ αἰχμὴν στερεὴν πᾶσαν χρυσέην, τὸ ξυστὸν τῇσι λόγχῃσι ἐὸν ὁμοίως χρύσεον·1 τὰ2 ἔτι καὶ ἀμφότερα ἐς ἐμὲ ἦν κείμενα ἐν Θήβῃσι καὶ Θηβέων ἐν τῳ νηῷ τοῦ Ἰσμηνίου Ἀπόλλωνος.
These things he sent to Delphi; but to Amphiaraus, having learned of his valour and his fate, he dedicated a shield entirely of gold likewise, and a solid spear all of gold, the shaft being likewise of gold as well as the points. Both of these were still in my time lying at Thebes, in the temple of Ismenian Apollo of the Thebans.
- 1.52.1τὸ ξυστὸν τῇσι λόγχῃσι ἐὸν ὁμοίως χρύσεον
This is an absolute construction (either accusative or nominative absolute) with the participle ἐόν (Ionic for ὄν), describing the structure of the preceding αἰχμὴν (spear). τῇσι λόγχῃσι is a dative controlled by ὁμοίως ("likewise with / similar to the points"), where the plural refers to both ends of the spear (the point and the butt).
- 1.52.1τὰ
The neuter plural nominative relative pronoun, equivalent to Attic ἅ in Herodotus' Ionic dialect. Its antecedents are both the σάκος (shield) and the αἰχμή (spear).