- 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-grc2:6.78.1-6.78.2
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Cleomenes took advantage of the Argives mimicking the Spartan herald by ordering an attack during the signal for breakfast, inflicting heavy casualties and besieging the survivors in the grove of Argos.
μαθὼν δὲ ὁ Κλεομένης ποιεῦντας τοὺς Ἀργείους1 ὁκοῖόν τι ὁ σφέτερος κῆρυξ σημήνειε, παραγγέλλει σφι, ὅταν σημήνῃ ὁ κῆρυξ ποιέεσθαι ἄριστον, τότε ἀναλαβόντας2 τὰ ὅπλα χωρέειν ἐς τοὺς Ἀργείους.
When Cleomenes learned that the Argives were doing whatever his own herald signaled, he ordered his men that, when the herald should signal to take breakfast, they should then take up their arms and charge against the Argives.
ταῦτα καὶ ἐγένετο ἐπιτελέα ἐκ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων· ἄριστον γὰρ ποιευμένοισι τοῖσι Ἀργείοισι ἐκ τοῦ κηρύγματος ἐπεκέατο,3 καὶ πολλοὺς μὲν ἐφόνευσαν αὐτῶν, πολλῷ δέ τι πλεῦνας ἐς τὸ ἄλσος τοῦ Ἄργου καταφυγόντας περιιζόμενοι ἐφύλασσον.
This was indeed carried out by the Lacedaemonians; for they fell upon the Argives while they were taking their breakfast in accordance with the signal, and they slew many of them, and a far greater number who had fled for refuge into the grove of Argos they surrounded and kept under guard.
- 6.78.1ποιεῦντας τοὺς Ἀργείους
A present participle in the accusative acting as the direct object of the verb μαθών (having learned), with τοὺς Ἀργείους as its subject. The optative σημήνειε in the following relative clause expresses indefinite repetition in past time.
- 6.78.1ἀναλαβόντας
An aorist participle in the accusative, agreeing with the unexpressed subject (in the accusative) of the infinitive χωρέειν (to advance) which depends on the verb of commanding παραγγέλλει.
- 6.78.2ἐπεκέατο
The third-person plural imperfect of ἐπίκειμαι (to fall upon, attack) in the Ionic dialect (corresponding to Attic ἐπέκειντο), taking the dative phrase ποιευμένοισι τοῖσι Ἀργείοισι.