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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 · 2026-11-09
After his death, Miltiades is honored as a founder in the Chersonese, though the rival Lampsacenes are excluded from his games. Stesagoras, who succeeded him, is also assassinated in the town-hall during the war.
οὗτος μὲν δὴ διὰ Κροῖσον ἐκφεύγει, μετὰ δὲ τελευτᾷ ἄπαις, τὴν ἀρχήν τε καὶ τὰ χρήματα παραδοὺς Στησαγόρῃ τῷ Κίμωνος ἀδελφεοῦ παιδὶ ὁμομητρίου.1 καί οἱ τελευτήσαντι Χερσονησῖται θύουσι ὡς νόμος οἰκιστῇ, καὶ ἀγῶνα ἱππικόν τε καὶ γυμνικὸν ἐπιστᾶσι, ἐν τῷ Λαμψακηνῶν οὐδενὶ ἐγγίνεται2 ἀγωνίζεσθαι.
He indeed escaped death because of Croesus, but afterwards died childless, handing over his rule and property to Stesagoras, the son of his brother Cimon by the same mother. And to him, now that he was dead, the Chersonesians offer sacrifices as is customary for a founder, and they have established equestrian and athletic contests, in which it is not permitted for any of the Lampsacenes to compete.
πολέμου δὲ ἐόντος πρὸς Λαμψακηνοὺς καὶ Στησαγόρεα κατέλαβε ἀποθανεῖν3 ἄπαιδα, πληγέντα τὴν κεφαλὴν4 πελέκεϊ ἐν τῷ πρυτανηίῳ πρὸς ἀνδρὸς αὐτομόλου μὲν τῷ λόγῳ πολεμίου δὲ καὶ ὑποθερμοτέρου τῷ ἔργῳ.
While the war with the Lampsacenes was still going on, Stesagoras also met his death childless, being struck on the head with an axe in the town-hall by a man who was in word a deserter, but in deed an enemy and a rather hot-headed fellow.
- 6.38.1τῷ Κίμωνος ἀδελφεοῦ παιδὶ ὁμομητρίου
The genitive singular masculine adjective ὁμομητρίου (by the same mother) modifies the adjacent noun ἀδελφεοῦ (brother). This indicates that Miltiades and Cimon were maternal half-brothers; it does not modify παιδὶ (child) or Κίμωνος (Cimon) directly as an attribute of Stesagoras.
- 6.38.1ἐγγίνεται
Impersonal verb meaning 'it is possible' or 'it is permitted,' taking the infinitive ἀγωνίζεσθαι (to compete) as its subject. Combined with the negative οὐδενὶ (no one), it expresses that 'it is not permitted for any of the Lampsacenes to compete.'
- 6.38.2κατέλαβε ἀποθανεῖν
The verb κατέλαβε is used impersonally here to mean 'it befell' or 'it overtook.' It takes an accusative and infinitive construction, with Στησαγόρεα as the subject of the infinitive ἀποθανεῖν ἄπαιδα (to die childless).
- 6.38.2πληγέντα τὴν κεφαλὴν
The passive participle πληγέντα (having been struck), which is in the accusative agreeing with Στησαγόρεα, is accompanied by τὴν κεφαλὴν (the head) as an accusative of respect (or retained accusative with a passive verb), meaning 'having been struck on the head.'