- 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-grc2:3.149.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Describes how the Persians handed Samos over to Syloson empty of men, and how the general Otanes later repopulated it due to a dream-vision and a genital disease.
τὴν δὲ Σάμον οἱ Πέρσαι παρέδοσαν Συλοσῶντι ἔρημον ἐοῦσαν ἀνδρῶν.1 ὑστέρῳ μέντοι χρόνῳ καὶ συγκατοίκισε αὐτὴν ὁ στρατηγὸς Ὀτάνης ἔκ τε ὄψιος ὀνείρου καὶ νούσου ἥ μιν κατέλαβε νοσῆσαι τὰ αἰδοῖα.2
The Persians handed Samos over to Syloson, empty of men. At a later time, however, the general Otanes also helped to repopulate it, both because of a dream-vision and because of a disease that seized him, infecting his genitals.
- 3.149.1ἔρημον ἐοῦσαν ἀνδρῶν
The genitive noun ἀνδρῶν is a genitive of separation or deprivation governed by the adjective ἔρημον (which modifies Samos alongside the participle ἐοῦσαν), meaning "empty of/lacking [men]".
- 3.149.1νοσῆσαι τὰ αἰδοῖα
The infinitive νοσῆσαι functions as an explanatory or resultative infinitive, specifying the nature of the disease (νούσου) that seized him (κατέλαβε). τὰ αἰδοῖα is an accusative of respect (part affected) serving as the object/specification of νοσῆσαι.