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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 · 2026-11-09
Democedes and the Persians sail from Sidon and survey Greece before arriving at Tarentum in Italy. Aristophilides, the king of Tarentum, temporarily detains the Persians to facilitate Democedes' escape, allowing him to return to his home city of Croton.
καταβάντες δὲ οὗτοι ἐς Φοινίκην καὶ Φοινίκης ἐς Σιδῶνα πόλιν αὐτίκα μὲν τριήρεας δύο ἐπλήρωσαν, ἅμα δὲ αὐτῇσι καὶ γαῦλον μέγαν παντοίων ἀγαθῶν· παρεσκευασμένοι δὲ πάντα ἔπλεον ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα, προσίσχοντες δὲ αὐτῆς τὰ παραθαλάσσια ἐθηεῦντο καὶ ἀπεγράφοντο, ἐς ὃ τὰ πολλὰ αὐτῆς καὶ ὀνομαστὰ θεησάμενοι ἀπίκοντο τῆς Ἰταλίης ἐς Τάραντα.
And these men went down to Phoenicia, and to the city of Sidon in Phoenicia; and there they at once manned two triremes, and with them also a large merchant ship laden with all kinds of good things. When they had prepared everything, they sailed to Greece, and putting in at the coastal parts, they surveyed and made a record of them, until, having observed the most and the most famous parts of it, they came to Tarentum in Italy.
ἐνθαῦτα δὲ ἐκ ῥηστώνης τῆς Δημοκήδεος1 Ἀριστοφιλίδης τῶν Ταραντίνων ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦτο μὲν τὰ πηδάλια παρέλυσε τῶν Μηδικέων νεῶν, τοῦτο δὲ2 αὐτοὺς τοὺς Πέρσας εἶρξε ὡς κατασκόπους δῆθεν ἐόντας. ἐν ᾧ δὲ οὗτοι ταῦτα ἔπασχον, ὁ Δημοκήδης ἐς τὴν Κρότωνα ἀπικνέεται· ἀπιγμένου δὲ ἤδη τούτου ἐς τὴν ἑωυτοῦ ὁ Ἀριστοφιλίδης ἔλυσε τοὺς Πέρσας, καὶ τὰ παρέλαβε τῶν νεῶν3 ἀπέδωκέ σφι.
There, out of favor to Democedes, Aristophilides, the king of the Tarentines, on the one hand took away the rudders of the Median ships, and on the other hand imprisoned the Persians themselves, on the pretext that they were spies. While they were suffering this treatment, Democedes reached Croton; and when he had already arrived in his own land, Aristophilides released the Persians and gave back to them what he had taken from the ships.
- 3.136.2ἐκ ῥηστώνης τῆς Δημοκήδεος
Meaning 'out of favor to Democedes.' The genitive τῆς Δημοκήδεος functions as an objective genitive. ῥηστώνη literally means 'easiness' or 'relief,' but here translates to 'favor' or 'convenience' offered to someone.
- 3.136.2τοῦτο μὲν ... τοῦτο δὲ ...
An Ionic adverbial expression corresponding to the Attic τὸ μὲν ... τὸ δέ ... ('on the one hand ... on the other hand ...').
- 3.136.2τὰ παρέλαβε τῶν νεῶν
A characteristic of the Ionic dialect where the neuter plural accusative article τὰ is used as a relative pronoun instead of ἃ. The relative clause means 'what he had taken from the ships' and functions as the direct object of ἀπέδωκε.