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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
The Spartan co-founders who accompanied Dorieus perish in Sicily, except for Euryleon, who survives, seizes Minoa, and is killed after attempting to establish a tyranny in Selinus.
συνέπλεον δὲ Δωριέι καὶ ἄλλοι συγκτίσται Σπαρτιητέων, Θεσσαλὸς καὶ Παραιβάτης καὶ Κελέης καὶ Εὐρυλέων· οἳ ἐπείτε ἀπίκοντο παντὶ στόλῳ ἐς τὴν Σικελίην, ἀπέθανον μάχῃ ἑσσωθέντες ὑπό τε Φοινίκων καὶ Ἐγεσταίων· μοῦνος δὲ Εὐρυλέων τῶν συγκτιστέων περιεγένετο τούτου τοῦ πάθεος.1
Other Spartan co-founders sailed with Dorieus as well: Thessalus, Paraibates, Celees, and Euryleon. When they arrived in Sicily with their entire expedition, they were defeated in battle by both the Phoenicians and the Egestans and died; of the co-founders, Euryleon alone survived this disaster.
συλλαβὼν δὲ οὗτος τῆς στρατιῆς τοὺς περιγενομένους ἔσχε Μινώην τὴν Σελινουσίων ἀποικίην, καὶ συνελευθέρου Σελινουσίους τοῦ μουνάρχου Πειθαγόρεω·2 μετὰ δὲ ὡς τοῦτον κατεῖλε, αὐτὸς τυραννίδι ἐπεχείρησε Σελινοῦντος καὶ ἐμουνάρχησε χρόνον ἐπʼ ὀλίγον· οἱ γάρ μιν Σελινούσιοι ἐπαναστάντες ἀπέκτειναν καταφυγόντα3 ἐπὶ Διὸς ἀγοραίου βωμόν.
Having rallied the survivors of the army, he seized Minoa, the colony of the Selinuntines, and helped to liberate the Selinuntines from their monarch Peithagoras. Afterward, when he had overthrown Peithagoras, he himself made an attempt on the tyranny of Selinus and ruled as sole ruler for a short time; for the Selinuntines rose up against him and killed him, even though he had fled to the altar of Zeus of the Agora.
- 5.46.1περιεγένετο τούτου τοῦ πάθεος
The verb περιγίγνομαι (to survive, overcome) takes the genitive (τούτου τοῦ πάθεος) to express that which is survived or overcome.
- 5.46.2συνελευθέρου Σελινουσίους τοῦ μουνάρχου Πειθαγόρεω
The verb συνελευθερόω (to help to liberate) takes the accusative (Σελινουσίους) for the people liberated and the genitive of separation (τοῦ μουνάρχου Πειθαγόρεω) for the source of oppression.
- 5.46.2καταφυγόντα
An aorist participle modifying the accusative pronoun μιν (him). It can be interpreted attributively ('him, who had fled') or with a concessive nuance ('although he had fled' to the sanctuary, they killed him).