- 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-grc2:4.133.1-4.133.3
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
A division of Scythians arrives at the bridge guarded by the Ionians and urges them to depart once the sixty-day limit set by Darius has expired, to which the Ionians agree.
Πέρσαι μὲν δὴ τὰ δῶρα εἴκαζον. ἡ δὲ Σκυθέων μία μοῖρα ἡ ταχθεῖσα πρότερον μὲν παρὰ τὴν Μαιῆτιν λίμνην φρουρέειν, τότε δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἴστρον Ἴωσι ἐς λόγους ἐλθεῖν,1 ὡς ἀπίκετο ἐπὶ τὴν γέφυραν, ἔλεγε τάδε.
Thus the Persians were conjecturing the gifts. But the single division of the Scythians which had been appointed earlier to guard along the Lake Maeotis, but at that time to come to a parley with the Ionians at the Ister, when it arrived at the bridge, spoke as follows:
ἄνδρες Ἴωνες, ἐλευθερίην ἥκομεν ὑμῖν φέροντες, ἤν πέρ γε ἐθέλητε ἐσακούειν. πυνθανόμεθα γὰρ Δαρεῖον ἐντείλασθαι ὑμῖν ἑξήκοντα ἡμέρας μούνας φρουρήσαντας τὴν γέφυραν, αὐτοῦ μὴ παραγενομένου ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χρόνῳ, ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι2 ἐς τὴν ὑμετέρην.
”Men of Ionia, we have come bringing freedom to you, if indeed you are willing to listen. For we learn that Darius commanded you to guard the bridge for sixty days only, and if he did not appear within this time, to depart to your own land.
νῦν ὦν ὑμεῖς τάδε ποιεῦντες ἐκτὸς μὲν ἔσεσθε πρὸς ἐκείνου αἰτίης, ἐκτὸς δὲ πρὸς ἡμέων· τὰς προκειμένας ἡμέρας παραμείναντες τὸ ἀπὸ τούτου ἀπαλλάσσεσθε. οὗτοι μέν νυν ὑποδεξαμένων Ἰώνων ποιήσειν ταῦτα ὀπίσω τὴν ταχίστην ἐπείγοντο.
Now therefore, if you do these things, you will be free from blame on his part, and free from blame on ours: remain for the prescribed days, and after that, depart.” When the Ionians promised to do this, these men hasted back again with all speed.
- 4.133.1ἡ ταχθεῖσα ... φρουρέειν ... ἐλθεῖν
The participle ἡ ταχθεῖσα (having been ordered) is modified by two object infinitives, φρουρέειν (to guard) and ἐλθεῖν (to go), introduced respectively by πρότερον μὲν (previously) and τότε δὲ (at that time).
- 4.133.2Δαρεῖον ἐντείλασθαι ... ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι
Within the accusative and infinitive construction (subject: Δαρεῖον, verb: ἐντείλασθαι) which depends on πυνθανόμεθα (we learn), the infinitive ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι (to depart) functions as the complement of ἐντείλασθαι (to command). The participle φρουρήσαντας (having guarded) is in the accusative to agree with the implied subject of ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι, even though it refers back to ὑμῖν (dative).