- 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-grc2:6.15.1-6.15.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
While many Ionians retreated, the Chians, who had provided a hundred ships with elite crews, remained in the sea-fight and fought bravely, suffering heavy losses.
τῶν δὲ παραμεινάντων1 ἐν τῇ ναυμαχίῃ περιέφθησαν τρηχύτατα2 Χῖοι ὡς ἀποδεικνύμενοί τε ἔργα λαμπρὰ καὶ οὐκ ἐθελοκακέοντες. παρείχοντο μὲν γάρ, ὥσπερ καὶ πρότερον εἰρέθη, νέας ἑκατόν, καὶ ἐπʼ ἑκάστης αὐτέων ἄνδρας τεσσεράκοντα τῶν ἀστῶν λογάδας ἐπιβατεύοντας.
Of those who remained in the sea-fight, the Chians were treated most harshly, since they displayed brilliant deeds and refused to play the coward. For they provided, as was also said before, one hundred ships, and on each of them forty chosen men of the citizens serving as marines.
ὁρέοντες δὲ τοὺς πολλοὺς τῶν συμμάχων προδιδόντας οὐκ ἐδικαίευν γίνεσθαι τοῖσι κακοῖσι αὐτῶν ὅμοιοι, ἀλλὰ μετʼ ὀλίγων συμμάχων μεμουνωμένοι διεκπλέοντες ἐναυμάχεον, ἐς ὃ3 τῶν πολεμίων ἑλόντες νέας συχνὰς ἀπέβαλον τῶν σφετερέων τὰς πλεῦνας.
And seeing the majority of their allies betraying them, they did not think it right to become like the cowards among them, but having been left isolated with only a few allies, they fought on, sailing through the enemy lines, until, having captured many of the enemy’s ships, they lost most of their own.
- 6.15.1τῶν δὲ παραμεινάντων
A partitive genitive placed at the beginning of the sentence, modifying the subsequent subject Χῖοι (the Chians), serving to limit and contrast: 'Of those who remained, the Chians...'
- 6.15.1περιέφθησαν τρηχύτατα
The third-person plural aorist passive form περιέφθησαν of the verb περιέπω (to treat, handle) in the Ionic dialect, combined with the superlative adverb τρηχύτατα (most roughly, most harshly), meaning 'they were treated most harshly' or 'they suffered the most severe damage.'
- 6.15.2ἐς ὃ
An Ionic conjunction meaning 'until,' indicating a temporal limit. Used here with the subsequent aorist indicative ἀπέβαλον to show that the fighting continued up to the point where they eventually lost most of their own ships.