- 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-grc2:6.14.1-6.14.3
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
As the sea-fight between the Phoenicians and the Ionians begins, the Samians, honoring their secret agreement, sail away except for eleven ships, and the Lesbians and most other Ionians follow suit.
τότε ὦν ἐπεὶ ἐπέπλεον οἱ Φοίνικες, οἱ Ἴωνες ἀντανῆγον καὶ αὐτοὶ τὰς νέας ἐπὶ κέρας. ὡς δὲ καὶ ἀγχοῦ ἐγίνοντο καὶ συνέμισγον ἀλλήλοισι, τὸ ἐνθεῦτεν1 οὐκ ἔχω ἀτρεκέως συγγράψαι οἵτινες τῶν Ἰώνων ἐγίνοντο ἄνδρες κακοὶ ἢ ἀγαθοὶ ἐν τῇ ναυμαχίῃ ταύτῃ· ἀλλήλους γὰρ καταιτιῶνται.
Then indeed, when the Phoenicians sailed against them, the Ionians themselves also led out their ships in column to meet them. And when they got close and joined battle with one another, from that point on I cannot write with certainty which of the Ionians proved themselves cowardly or brave in this sea-fight; for they accuse one another.
λέγονται δὲ Σάμιοι ἐνθαῦτα κατὰ τὰ συγκείμενα πρὸς τὸν Αἰάκεα ἀειράμενοι τὰ ἱστία ἀποπλῶσαι2 ἐκ τῆς τάξιος ἐς τὴν Σάμον, πλὴν ἕνδεκα νεῶν· τουτέων δὲ οἱ τριήραρχοι παρέμενον καὶ ἐναυμάχεον ἀνηκουστήσαντες3 τοῖσι στρατηγοῖσι·
It is said, however, that the Samians on this occasion, according to the agreement made with Aeaces, hoisted their sails and sailed away from the line of battle to Samos, with the exception of eleven ships. The trierarchs of these remained and fought, disobeying their generals.
καί σφι τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Σαμίων ἔδωκε διὰ τοῦτο τὸ πρῆγμα ἐν στήλῃ ἀναγραφῆναι4 πατρόθεν ὡς ἀνδράσι ἀγαθοῖσι γενομένοισι, καὶ ἔστι αὕτη ἡ στήλη ἐν τῇ ἀγορῇ. ἰδόμενοι δὲ καὶ Λέσβιοι τοὺς προσεχέας φεύγοντας τὠυτὸ ἐποίευν τοῖσι Σαμίοισι· ὣς δὲ καὶ οἱ πλεῦνες τῶν Ἰώνων ἐποίευν τὰ αὐτὰ ταῦτα.
And for this deed, the Samian commonwealth granted them to be inscribed on a pillar with their fathers’ names as men who had been brave, and this pillar is in the marketplace. The Lesbians also, seeing those next to them fleeing, did the same as the Samians; and so indeed did the majority of the Ionians do these very same things.
- 6.14.1τὸ ἐνθεῦτεν
An adverbial accusative of time, or functioning as the direct object of συγγράψαι in apposition with the following indirect question clause οἵτινες.... It means 'from that point on' or 'the subsequent events.'
- 6.14.2λέγονται δὲ Σάμιοι ... ἀποπλῶσαι
A personal passive construction, highly common in Greek, meaning 'the Samians are said to have sailed away,' which is preferred over the impersonal construction ('it is said that the Samians sailed away').
- 6.14.2ἀνηκουστήσαντες
Aorist active participle of ἀνηκουστέω (to disobey), governing the dative τοῖσι στρατηγοῖσι. It expresses the attendant circumstance or manner ('disobeying' or 'in disobedience to').
- 6.14.3ἔδωκε... ἀναγραφῆναι
The verb δίδωμι (to give/grant) construed with the infinitive ἀναγραφῆναι, meaning 'granted [them] to be inscribed' or 'permitted [them] to be inscribed,' with σφι (to them) acting as the dative subject of the infinitive.