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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
Miltiades escapes to Athens fleeing the Phoenicians, while his eldest son Metiochus is captured and brought to King Darius, who unexpectedly treats him with great generosity.
τότε δὲ πυνθανόμενος εἶναι τοὺς Φοίνικας ἐν Τενέδῳ, πληρώσας τριήρεας πέντε χρημάτων τῶν παρεόντων1 ἀπέπλεε ἐς τὰς Ἀθήνας. καὶ ὥσπερ ὁρμήθη ἐκ Καρδίης πόλιος ἔπλεε διὰ τοῦ Μέλανος κόλπου· παραμείβετό τε τὴν Χερσόνησον καὶ οἱ Φοίνικές οἱ περιπίπτουσι τῇσι νηυσί.
At that time, learning that the Phoenicians were at Tenedos, Miltiades manned five triremes with the property he had at hand and sailed away toward Athens. And just as he had set out from the city of Cardia, he sailed through the Gulf of Melas; and as he was coasting along the Chersonese, the Phoenicians fell in with his ships.
αὐτὸς μὲν δὴ Μιλτιάδης σὺν τῇσι τέσσερσι τῶν νεῶν καταφεύγει ἐς Ἴμβρον, τὴν δέ οἱ πέμπτην τῶν νεῶν κατεῖλον διώκοντες οἱ Φοίνικες. τῆς δὲ νεὸς ταύτης ἔτυχε τῶν Μιλτιάδεω παίδων ὁ πρεσβύτατος ἄρχων Μητίοχος, οὐκ ἐκ τῆς Ὀλόρου τοῦ Θρήικος ἐὼν θυγατρὸς ἀλλʼ ἐξ ἄλλης·
Miltiades himself, indeed, fled with four of the ships to Imbros, but the Phoenicians in pursuit captured the fifth of his ships. On this ship, it happened that Metiochus, the eldest of Miltiades’ sons, was in command, not being by the daughter of Olorus the Thracian, but by another wife.
καὶ τοῦτον ἅμα τῇ νηὶ εἷλον οἱ Φοίνικες, καί μιν πυθόμενοι ὡς εἴη Μιλτιάδεω παῖς2 ἀνήγαγον παρὰ βασιλέα, δοκέοντες χάριτα μεγάλην καταθήσεσθαι, ὅτι δὴ Μιλτιάδης γνώμην ἀπεδέξατο ἐν τοῖσι Ἴωσι πείθεσθαι κελεύων τοῖσι Σκύθῃσι, ὅτε οἱ Σκύθαι προσεδέοντο λύσαντας τὴν σχεδίην ἀποπλέειν ἐς τὴν ἑωυτῶν.
The Phoenicians captured him along with the ship, and learning that he was Miltiades’ son, they brought him up to the King, thinking that they would lay up a great store of gratitude, because indeed Miltiades had declared an opinion among the Ionians, urging them to obey the Scythians when the Scythians requested that they should loosen the bridge and sail away to their own land.
Δαρεῖος δέ, ὡς οἱ Φοίνικες Μητίοχον τὸν Μιλτιάδεω ἀνήγαγον, ἐποίησε κακὸν μὲν οὐδὲν Μητίοχον, ἀγαθὰ δὲ συχνά·3 καὶ γὰρ οἶκον καὶ κτῆσιν ἔδωκε καὶ Περσίδα γυναῖκα, ἐκ τῆς οἱ τέκνα ἐγένετο τὰ ἐς Πέρσας κεκοσμέαται.4 Μιλτιάδης δὲ ἐξ Ἴμβρου ἀπικνέεται ἐς τὰς Ἀθήνας.
But Darius, when the Phoenicians brought up Metiochus, the son of Miltiades, did no harm to Metiochus, but many good things; for he gave him both a house and property, and a Persian wife, by whom he had children who are reckoned among the Persians. Meanwhile, Miltiades arrived at Athens from Imbros.
- 6.41.1χρημάτων τῶν παρεόντων
Genitive of material or content governed by the participle πληρώσας (from πληρόω, 'to fill' or 'to man'), indicating what he loaded the triremes with.
- 6.41.3μιν πυθόμενοι ὡς εἴη Μιλτιάδεω παῖς
A classic example of prolepsis (anticipation), in which the pronoun μιν, logically the subject of the dependent ὡς clause, is anticipated as the accusative object of the participle πυθόμενοι.
- 6.41.4ἐποίησε κακὸν μὲν οὐδὲν Μητίοχον, ἀγαθὰ δὲ συχνά
A double accusative construction governed by the verb ἐποίησε, which takes both the person affected (Μητίοχον) and the things done (κακὸν / ἀγαθά) in the accusative case.
- 6.41.4κεκοσμέαται
The third-person plural perfect indicative passive of κοσμέω. The ending -αται is a characteristic Ionic dialectal form, equivalent to the Attic κεκόσμηνται.