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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 · 2026-11-08
The identities and origins of the suitors who gathered from all over the Greek world, including Italy, the Ionian Gulf, Aetolia, the Peloponnese, Athens, Euboea, Thessaly, and Molossia, to court Agariste are listed.
ἀπὸ μὲν δὴ Ἰταλίης ἦλθε Σμινδυρίδης ὁ Ἱπποκράτεος Συβαρίτης, ὃς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον δὴ χλιδῆς εἷς ἀνὴρ1 ἀπίκετο (ἡ δὲ Σύβαρις ἤκμαζε τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον μάλιστα), καὶ Σιρίτης Δάμασος Ἀμύριος τοῦ σοφοῦ λεγομένου παῖς.
From Italy indeed came Smindyrides, the son of Hippocrates, of Sybaris, who as a single man reached the highest pitch of luxury (and Sybaris was at this time at its greatest height of prosperity); and from Siris, Damasus, the son of Amyris called the Wise.
οὗτοι μὲν ἀπὸ Ἰταλίης ἦλθον, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ κόλπου τοῦ Ἰονίου Ἀμφίμνηστος Ἐπιστρόφου Ἐπιδάμνιος· οὗτος δὲ ἐκ τοῦ Ἰονίου κόλπου. Αἰτωλὸς δὲ ἦλθε Τιτόρμου τοῦ ὑπερφύντος τε Ἕλληνας ἰσχύι καὶ φυγόντος ἀνθρώπους ἐς τὰς ἐσχατιὰς τῆς Αἰτωλίδος χώρης, τούτου τοῦ Τιτόρμου ἀδελφεὸς Μάλης.
These came from Italy, and from the Ionian Gulf, Amphimnestus, the son of Epistrophus, of Epidamnus; and this one was from the Ionian Gulf. And from Aetolia came Males, the brother of Titormus—of that Titormus who surpassed the Greeks in strength and fled from men to the furthest borders of the Aetolian country.
ἀπὸ δὲ Πελοποννήσου Φείδωνος τοῦ Ἀργείων τυράννου παῖς2 Λεωκήδης, Φείδωνος δὲ τοῦ τὰ μέτρα ποιήσαντος Πελοποννησίοισι καὶ ὑβρίσαντος μέγιστα δὴ Ἑλλήνων πάντων, ὃς ἐξαναστήσας τοὺς Ἠλείων ἀγωνοθέτας αὐτὸς τὸν ἐν Ὀλυμπίῃ ἀγῶνα ἔθηκε· τούτου τε δὴ παῖς καὶ Ἀμίαντος Λυκούργου Ἀρκὰς ἐκ Τραπεζοῦντος, καὶ Ἀζὴν ἐκ Παίου πόλιος Λαφάνης Εὐφορίωνος τοῦ δεξαμένου τε, ὡς λόγος ἐν Ἀρκαδίῃ λέγεται, τοὺς Διοσκούρους οἰκίοισι καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου ξεινοδοκέοντος πάντας ἀνθρώπους, καὶ Ἠλεῖος Ὀνόμαστος Ἀγαίου.
And from the Peloponnese came Leocedes, the son of Pheidon the tyrant of the Argives—that Pheidon who established the measures for the Peloponnesians and committed the greatest acts of insolence of all the Greeks, who, having expelled the Elean stewards of the games, himself conducted the games in Olympia; this man’s son indeed, and Amiantus, son of Lycurgus, an Arcadian from Trapezus, and from the city of Paeus, Laphanes, an Azanian, son of Euphorion who, as the story is told in Arcadia, received the Dioscuri in his house and from that time on welcomed all men as guests, and Onomastus of Elis, son of Agaeus.
οὗτοι μὲν δὴ ἐξ αὐτῆς Πελοποννήσου ἦλθον, ἐκ δὲ Ἀθηνέων ἀπίκοντο Μεγακλέης τε ὁ Ἀλκμέωνος τούτου τοῦ παρὰ Κροῖσον ἀπικομένου, καὶ ἄλλος Ἱπποκλείδης Τισάνδρου, πλούτῳ καὶ εἴδεϊ προφέρων Ἀθηναίων. ἀπὸ δὲ Ἐρετρίης ἀνθεύσης τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον Λυσανίης· οὗτος δὲ ἀπʼ Εὐβοίης μοῦνος. ἐκ δὲ Θεσσαλίης ἦλθε τῶν Σκοπαδέων Διακτορίδης Κραννώνιος, ἐκ δὲ Μολοσσῶν Ἄλκων.
These indeed came from the Peloponnese itself, and from Athens arrived Megacles, the son of that Alcmeon who had gone to Croesus, and another, Hippocleides son of Tisander, who surpassed the Athenians in wealth and beauty. And from Eretria, which was then flourishing, Lysanias; this was the only one from Euboea. And from Thessaly came Diactorides of Crannon, of the family of the Scopadae, and from the Molossians, Alcon.
- 6.127.1εἷς ἀνὴρ
An idiomatic expression modifying a superlative or equivalent expression (here, ἐπὶ πλεῖστον), emphasizing "above any other single man" or "preeminently."
- 6.127.3Φείδωνος δὲ... τούτου τε δὴ παῖς
After introducing "Leocedes, the son of Pheidon," a long descriptive parenthesis about the father Pheidon (including the relative clause starting with ὃς) is inserted, after which the phrase τούτου τε δὴ παῖς (indeed the son of this man) is used to resume the syntax and reconnect to the main subject.