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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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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:5.122.1-5.122.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Hymees turns from pursuing the Ionians to the Propontis, capturing Cius. Learning that Daurises has moved to Caria, he marches to the Hellespont, where he conquers the Aeolians and the Gergithae before dying of illness in the Troad.
οὗτοι μέν νυν τῶν Περσέων οὕτω διεφθάρησαν· Ὑμαίης δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐὼν τῶν ἐπιδιωξάντων τοὺς ἐς Σάρδις στρατευσαμένους Ἰώνων,1 τραπόμενος ἐς τὸν Προποντίδα εἷλε Κίον τὴν Μυσίην·
These of the Persians were thus destroyed. Meanwhile Hymees, who was himself also one of those who had pursued the Ionians who had marched against Sardis, turning toward the Propontis, took Cius in Mysia.
ταύτην δὲ ἐξελών, ὡς ἐπύθετο τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ἐκλελοιπέναι2 Δαυρίσην καὶ στρατεύεσθαι ἐπὶ Καρίης, καταλιπὼν τὴν Προποντίδα ἐπὶ τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ἦγε τὸν στρατόν, καὶ εἷλε μὲν Αἰολέας πάντας ὅσοι τὴν Ἰλιάδα νέμονται, εἷλε δὲ Γέργιθας τοὺς ὑπολειφθέντας τῶν ἀρχαίων Τευκρῶν· αὐτός τε Ὑμαίης αἱρέων3 ταῦτα τὰ ἔθνεα νούσῳ τελευτᾷ ἐν τῇ Τρῳάδι.
Having taken this city, when he learned that Daurises had left the Hellespont and was marching against Caria, he abandoned the Propontis and led his army to the Hellespont. There he conquered all the Aeolians who inhabit the territory of Ilium, and also conquered the Gergithae, who were left behind from the ancient Teucrians. Hymees himself, while conquering these nations, died of a disease in the Troad.
- 5.122.1Ἰώνων
The genitive plural noun Ἰώνων functions as a partitive genitive modified by the preceding accusative participle phrase τοὺς ἐς Σάρδις στρατευσαμένους ('those who had marched against Sardis'). It creates a nested partitive structure meaning 'one of those (τῶν ἐπιδιωξάντων) who pursued those among the Ionians (Ἰώνων) who had marched against Sardis.'
- 5.122.2ἐκλελοιπέναι
Part of the accusative-and-infinitival construction (indirect discourse) acting as the object of ἐπύθετο (from πυνθάνομαι). Δαυρίσην (accusative) is the subject accusative, and τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον is the direct object. The perfect infinitive ἐκλελοιπέναι denotes an action completed prior to the time of the main verb ('that Daurises had already left the Hellespont').
- 5.122.2αἱρέων
Present active participle of αἱρέω, expressing a progressive action synchronous with the main verb τελευτᾷ ('while he was in the process of conquering'). This contrasts with the earlier completed actions expressed by the aorist verbs εἷλε, emphasizing that his death occurred in the midst of an ongoing military campaign.