- 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-grc2:5.48.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
The death of Dorieus is concluded, with the observation that had he stayed in Sparta, he would have eventually inherited the kingship of Lacedaemon since Cleomenes died without a male heir.
Δωριεὺς μέν νυν τρόπῳ τοιούτῳ ἐτελεύτησε· εἰ δὲ ἠνέσχετο βασιλευόμενος1 ὑπὸ Κλεομένεος καὶ κατέμενε ἐν Σπάρτῃ, ἐβασίλευσε ἂν2 Λακεδαίμονος· οὐ γάρ τινα πολλὸν χρόνον ἦρξε ὁ Κλεομένης, ἀλλʼ ἀπέθανε ἄπαις, θυγατέρα μούνην λιπών, τῇ οὔνομα ἦν Γοργώ.
In this manner, then, Dorieus met his end. But if he had endured being ruled by Cleomenes and had remained in Sparta, he would have become king of Lacedaemon; for Cleomenes did not rule for any long time, but died childless, leaving only a daughter, whose name was Gorgo.
- 5.48.1ἠνέσχετο βασιλευόμενος
The verb ἀνέχομαι (to endure) takes a supplementary participle (here the present passive participle βασιλευόμενος) to mean 'endure being ruled.'
- 5.48.1εἰ δὲ ἠνέσχετο ... ἐβασίλευσε ἂν
A contrary-to-fact conditional sentence referring to the past. The protasis uses past indicative tenses (the aorist ἠνέσχετο and the imperfect κατέμενε), while the apodosis uses the aorist indicative with the particle ἄν (ἐβασίλευσε ἂν), meaning 'if he had... he would have...'