- Source
- 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 · 2026-11-08
Necos abandoned the canal project to focus on military campaigns, building fleets in both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, defeating the Syrians at Magdolus, capturing Cadytis, and finally dying after a sixteen-year reign.
παυσάμενος δὲ τῆς διώρυχος ὁ Νεκῶς ἐτράπετο πρὸς στρατηίας, καὶ τριήρεες αἳ μὲν ἐπὶ τῇ βορηίῃ θαλάσσῃ ἐποιήθησαν, αἳ δʼ ἐν τῷ Ἀραβίῳ κόλπῳ ἐπὶ τῇ Ἐρυθρῇ θαλάσσῃ, τῶν1 ἔτι οἱ ὁλκοὶ2 ἐπίδηλοι.
Having stopped the canal, Necos turned to military campaigns, and triremes were built, some on the northern sea, others in the Arabian Gulf on the Red Sea, of which the slipways are still visible.
καὶ ταύτῃσί τε ἐχρᾶτο ἐν τῷ δέοντι καὶ Σύροισι πεζῇ ὁ Νεκῶς συμβαλὼν ἐν Μαγδώλῳ ἐνίκησε, μετὰ δὲ τὴν μάχην Κάδυτιν πόλιν τῆς Συρίης ἐοῦσαν μεγάλην εἷλε.
And he made use of these as occasion required, and also, engaging with the Syrians by land, Necos defeated them at Magdolus, and after the battle he took Cadytis, which is a great city of Syria.
ἐν τῇ δὲ ἐσθῆτι ἔτυχε ταῦτα κατεργασάμενος,3 ἀνέθηκε τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι πέμψας ἐς Βραγχίδας τὰς Μιλησίων. μετὰ δέ, ἑκκαίδεκα ἔτεα τὰ πάντα4 ἄρξας, τελευτᾷ, τῷ παιδὶ Ψάμμι παραδοὺς τὴν ἀρχήν.
The garment in which he happened to have accomplished these deeds, he dedicated to Apollo, sending it to Branchidae of the Milesians. After this, having ruled for sixteen years in all, he died, handing over the sovereignty to his son Psammis.
- 2.159.1τῶν
Relative pronoun in the genitive case, referring back to the preceding τριήρεες (triremes); meaning "of which (ships)".
- 2.159.1ὁλκοί
Refers to "slipways", "slides", or "tracks" used for dragging ships onto dry land.
- 2.159.3ἔτυχε ταῦτα κατεργασάμενος
The construction of the verb τυγχάνω (to happen to be) with the supplementary participle (κατεργασάμενος). Although it literally means "happened to accomplish these things," it serves here to emphasize the actual state or circumstance under which he performed these historical deeds (i.e., while wearing that garment).
- 2.159.3ἑκκαίδεκα ἔτεα τὰ πάντα
Accusative of duration of time. The phrase τὰ πάντα (in all, altogether) modifies the number, meaning "for sixteen years in all" or "for a full sixteen years".