- 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-grc2:5.47.1-5.47.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
The passage describes Philippus of Croton, who accompanied Dorieus, detailing his origin, his exceptional beauty, and how the Egestans worshiped him as a hero after his death.
συνέσπετο δὲ Δωριέι καὶ συναπέθανε Φίλιππος ὁ Βουτακίδεω Κροτωνιήτης ἀνήρ, ὃς ἁρμοσάμενος Τήλυος τοῦ Συβαρίτεω θυγατέρα ἔφυγε ἐκ Κρότωνος, ψευσθεὶς δὲ τοῦ γάμου1 οἴχετο πλέων2 ἐς Κυρήνην, ἐκ ταύτης δὲ ὁρμώμενος συνέσπετο οἰκηίῃ τε τριήρεϊ καὶ οἰκηίῃ ἀνδρῶν δαπάνῃ, ἐών τε Ὀλυμπιονίκης καὶ κάλλιστος Ἑλλήνων τῶν κατʼ ἑωυτόν.
Philippus, the son of Butacides, a man of Croton, also accompanied Dorieus and died with him. Having betrothed the daughter of Telys of Sybaris, he fled from Croton, and being disappointed of the marriage, he went sailing away to Cyrene. Setting out from there, he accompanied the expedition with his own trireme and at his own personal expense for his men, being an Olympic victor and the most beautiful of the Greeks of his time.
διὰ δὲ τὸ ἑωυτοῦ κάλλος ἠνείκατο παρὰ Ἐγεσταίων τὰ οὐδεὶς ἄλλος·3 ἐπὶ γὰρ τοῦ τάφου αὐτοῦ ἡρώιον ἱδρυσάμενοι θυσίῃσι αὐτὸν ἱλάσκονται.4
Because of his beauty, he won from the Egestans what no one else did; for they established a hero’s shrine upon his tomb and propitiate him with sacrifices.
- 5.47.1ψευσθεὶς δὲ τοῦ γάμου
The passive participle ψευσθεὶς, accompanied by the genitive τοῦ γάμου, means "being disappointed in the marriage" or "having his promise of marriage broken." The active ψεύδω means "to deceive" or "to frustrate."
- 5.47.1οἴχετο πλέων
The combination of the verb οἴχομαι ("to have gone") and the participle πλέων ("sailing") is an idiomatic construction expressing a departure: "he went sailing away."
- 5.47.2τὰ οὐδεὶς ἄλλος
Here, τὰ functions as a relative pronoun (neuter plural accusative, including the antecedent) meaning "things which no one else (obtained)." It is the direct object of ἠνείκατο ("won" or "obtained").
- 5.47.2θυσίῃσι αὐτὸν ἱλάσκονται
The dative θυσίῃσι expresses means ("with sacrifices"). The transitive verb ἱλάσκονται, originally meaning "to appease" or "to propitiate," here refers to the religious practice of worshiping a deceased person as a hero.