- 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-grc2:5.68.1-5.68.2
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The text describes Cleisthenes' renaming of the Sicyonian tribes to humiliate them and the subsequent restoration and reorganization of the tribal names after his death.
ταῦτα μὲν ἐς Ἄδρηστόν οἱ1 ἐπεποίητο, φυλὰς δὲ τὰς Δωριέων, ἵνα δὴ μὴ αἱ αὐταὶ ἔωσι τοῖσι Σικυωνίοισι καὶ τοῖσι Ἀργείοισι, μετέβαλε ἐς ἄλλα οὐνόματα. ἔνθα καὶ πλεῖστον κατεγέλασε τῶν Σικυωνίων· ἐπὶ γὰρ ὑός τε καὶ ὄνου τὰς ἐπωνυμίας μετατιθεὶς αὐτὰ τὰ τελευταῖα2 ἐπέθηκε, πλὴν τῆς ἑωυτοῦ φυλῆς· ταύτῃ δὲ τὸ οὔνομα ἀπὸ τῆς ἑωυτοῦ ἀρχῆς ἔθετο. οὗτοι μὲν δὴ Ἀρχέλαοι ἐκαλέοντο, ἕτεροι δὲ Ὑᾶται, ἄλλοι δὲ Ὀνεᾶται, ἕτεροι δὲ Χοιρεᾶται.
These things, on the one hand, had been done by him in regard to Adrastus; on the other hand, he changed the tribes of the Dorians to other names, in order that the Sicyonians and the Argives might not have the same tribes. In this, he mocked the Sicyonians most of all; for, changing their names based on pig and ass, he added these very suffixes, except for his own tribe, to which he gave the name derived from his own rule. Thus, these indeed were called Archelaoi, others Hyatae, others Oneatae, and others Choireatae.
τούτοισι τοῖσι οὐνόμασι τῶν φυλέων ἐχρέωντο οἱ Σικυώνιοι καὶ ἐπὶ Κλεισθένεος ἄρχοντος καὶ ἐκείνου τεθνεῶτος ἔτι ἐπʼ ἔτεα ἑξήκοντα· μετέπειτα μέντοι λόγον σφίσι δόντες3 μετέβαλον ἐς τοὺς Ὑλλέας καὶ Παμφύλους καὶ Δυμανάτας, τετάρτους δὲ αὐτοῖσι προσέθεντο ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἀδρήστου παιδὸς Αἰγιαλέος τὴν ἐπωνυμίην ποιεύμενοι κεκλῆσθαι Αἰγιαλέας.
The Sicyonians used these names of the tribes both during the rule of Cleisthenes and, after his death, for sixty years more; later, however, having consulted among themselves, they changed them to the Hylleis, Pamphyli, and Dymanatae, and they added a fourth tribe for themselves, making its name after Adrastus’ son Aegialeus, so as to be called Aegialeis.
- 5.68.1οἱ
Dative of agent (dative of interest) accompanying the pluperfect passive verb ἐπεποίητο, translated as 'by him.'
- 5.68.1αὐτὰ τὰ τελευταῖα
Literally 'these very last things,' referring here to the suffixes (-ᾶται) that were appended to the stems of the animal names to form the tribal names.
- 5.68.2λόγον σφίσι δόντες
Idiomatic expression meaning 'having given an account to themselves,' i.e., 'having consulted among themselves' or 'having deliberated.'