- Source
- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- CTS URN
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:3.33.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
The madness of Cambyses towards his family is attributed either to the sacrilege against Apis or to his congenital 'sacred disease' (epilepsy).
ταῦτα1 μὲν ἐς τοὺς οἰκηίους ὁ Καμβύσης ἐξεμάνη, εἴτε δὴ διὰ τὸν Ἆπιν εἴτε καὶ ἄλλως, οἷα πολλὰ ἔωθε ἀνθρώπους κακὰ καταλαμβάνειν· καὶ γὰρ τινὰ ἐκ γενεῆς νοῦσον μεγάλην λέγεται ἔχειν ὁ Καμβύσης, τὴν ἱρὴν ὀνομάζουσι τινές. οὔ νύν τοι ἀεικὲς οὐδὲν ἦν τοῦ σώματος νοῦσον μεγάλην νοσέοντος2 μηδὲ τὰς φρένας ὑγιαίνειν.3
These mad acts Cambyses committed against his own family, whether because of Apis or for some other reason, of the kind of many evils that are wont to overtake mankind. For indeed Cambyses is said to have had from birth a certain serious disease, which some call the ‘sacred disease’. It was therefore not at all unlikely that, when the body was suffering from a serious disease, the mind also should not be healthy.
- 3.33.1ταῦτα
This is an internal accusative (or accusative of respect) modifying the verb ἐξεμάνη ("he raged", "he committed mad acts"), meaning "these mad acts" or "in this way".
- 3.33.1τοῦ σώματος ... νοσέοντος
A genitive absolute construction with the noun σώματος and the participle νοσέοντος, expressing a condition, cause, or concession ("since/if the body suffers from..."). The phrase νοῦσον ... νοσέοντος forms a cognate accusative.
- 3.33.1μηδὲ τὰς φρένας ὑγιαίνειν
The infinitive ὑγιαίνειν ("to be healthy") serves as the subject of the impersonal phrase οὐδὲν ἀεικὲς ἦν ("it was not at all unlikely"). τὰς φρένας is an accusative of respect ("with regard to the mind") or acts as the subject accusative of the intransitive infinitive.