- 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-grc2:5.21.1-5.21.2
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The slain Persian envoys and their retinue vanished along with their equipment, and when a Persian search was later launched, Alexander resolved it by bribing the searching general Bubares with money and his sister's hand in marriage.
καὶ οὗτοι μὲν τούτῳ τῷ μόρῳ διεφθάρησαν, καὶ αὐτοὶ καὶ ἡ θεραπηίη αὐτῶν· εἵπετο γὰρ δή σφι καὶ ὀχήματα καὶ θεράποντες καὶ ἡ πᾶσα πολλὴ παρασκευή· πάντα δὴ ταῦτα ἅμα πᾶσι ἐκείνοισι ἠφάνιστο.
And these indeed were destroyed by this fate, both themselves and their retinue; for there followed them indeed both carriages and servants and all their vast equipment. All these things indeed vanished together with all of those men.
μετὰ δὲ χρόνῳ οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον ζήτησις τῶν ἀνδρῶν τούτων μεγάλη ἐκ τῶν Περσέων ἐγίνετο, καί σφεας Ἀλέξανδρος κατέλαβε1 σοφίῃ, χρήματά τε δοὺς πολλὰ καὶ τὴν ἑωυτοῦ ἀδελφεὴν τῇ οὔνομα ἦν Γυγαίη· δοὺς δὲ ταῦτα κατέλαβε ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος Βουβάρῃ ἀνδρὶ Πέρσῃ, τῶν διζημένων τοὺς ἀπολομένους τῷ στρατηγῷ.2
And not long afterward, a great search for these men was made by the Persians, but Alexander stopped them by his cleverness, giving much money and his own sister whose name was Gygaea; by giving these things, Alexander won over Bubares, a Persian man, the general of those who were searching for the lost men.
- 5.21.2κατέλαβε
The verb καταλαμβάνω (aorist κατέλαβε), appearing twice in 21.2, has different constructions and meanings. In the first instance, καί σφεας ... κατέλαβε, it takes the accusative σφέας (them) as its object, meaning "to stop, silence (their inquiry)". In the second instance, κατέλαβε ... Βουβάρῃ, it is construed with the dative Βουβάρῃ, meaning "to win over, conciliate (someone by gifts or marriage)", which is a usage characteristic of Herodotus.
- 5.21.2τῶν διζημένων τοὺς ἀπολομένους τῷ στρατηγῷ
The noun τῷ στρατηγῷ (the general) is in the dative, in apposition to the preceding Βουβάρῃ (Bubares). τῶν διζημένων is a genitive plural present participle meaning "of those who were searching," modifying στρατηγῷ. τοὺς ἀπολομένους (those who had perished/the lost ones) is the accusative object of the participle διζημένων.