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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 · 2026-11-10
After arriving at Ephesus, the Ionians left their ships and marched inland to capture Sardis, taking the entire city except for the acropolis, which Artaphernes defended with a large force.
ἀπικόμενοι δὲ τῷ στόλῳ τούτῳ1 Ἴωνες ἐς Ἔφεσον πλοῖα μὲν κατέλιπον ἐν Κορησῷ τῆς Ἐφεσίης, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἀνέβαινον2 χειρὶ πολλῇ, ποιεύμενοι Ἐφεσίους ἡγεμόνας τῆς ὁδοῦ. πορευόμενοι δὲ παρὰ ποταμὸν Καΰστριον, ἐνθεῦτεν ἐπείτε ὑπερβάντες τὸν Τμῶλον ἀπίκοντο, αἱρέουσι Σάρδις οὐδενός σφι ἀντιωθέντος,3 αἱρέουσι δὲ χωρὶς τῆς ἀκροπόλιος τἆλλα πάντα· τὴν δὲ ἀκρόπολιν ἐρρύετο4 αὐτὸς Ἀρταφρένης ἔχων ἀνδρῶν δύναμιν οὐκ ὀλίγην.
Having arrived at Ephesus with this fleet, the Ionians left their ships at Coresus in the territory of Ephesus, and they themselves marched inland with a large force, making the Ephesians their guides for the way. Journeying along the Caÿster river, and when they had crossed Mount Tmolus from there and arrived, they captured Sardis without anyone opposing them; they captured everything else except the acropolis. But the acropolis itself Artaphernes was defending, having no small force of men.
- 5.100.1τῷ στόλῳ τούτῳ
Functions as a dative of accompaniment or instrument, referring to the fleet composed of the Athenian and Eretrian ships mentioned in the previous section (5.99.1).
- 5.100.1ἀνέβαινον
A verb indicating an inland march from the coast (in this case, to Sardis). This is a standard Greek term used for expeditions into the interior of Asia.
- 5.100.1οὐδενός σφι ἀντιωθέντος
Genitive absolute construction where the genitive of the indefinite pronoun οὐδενός acts as the subject for the participle ἀντιωθέντος (aorist passive participle of ἀντιόομαι with active meaning). σφι is the dative plural ('to/against them') in Ionic dialect.
- 5.100.1ἐρρύετο
Third-person singular imperfect of the verb ῥύομαι (to guard, protect), expressing a continuous or ongoing state of defense.