- Source
- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- CTS URN
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:6.96.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
The Persian army arrives at Naxos; the Naxians flee to the mountains, and the Persians enslave those they capture, burn the temples and the city, and set sail for other islands.
ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ Ἰκαρίου πελάγεος προσφερόμενοι προσέμιξαν τῇ Νάξῳ, ἐπὶ ταύτην γὰρ δὴ πρώτην ἐπεῖχον1 στρατεύεσθαι οἱ Πέρσαι μεμνημένοι τῶν πρότερον2 οἱ Νάξιοι πρὸς τὰ ὄρεα οἴχοντο φεύγοντες3 οὐδὲ ὑπέμειναν, οἱ δὲ Πέρσαι ἀνδραποδισάμενοι τοὺς κατέλαβον αὐτῶν,4 ἐνέπρησαν καὶ τὰ ἱρὰ καὶ τὴν πόλιν. ταῦτα δὲ ποιήσαντες ἐπὶ τὰς ἄλλας νήσους ἀνήγοντο.
And when, approaching from the Icarian Sea, they made land at Naxos—for indeed against this island first the Persians intended to make war, remembering what had happened before—the Naxians went fleeing to the mountains and did not stand their ground. The Persians, having enslaved those of them whom they caught, set fire to both the temples and the city; having done these things, they put to sea against the other islands.
- 6.96.1ἐπεῖχον
The verb ἐπέχω with an infinitive (here στρατεύεσθαι) is used in the sense of 'to intend' or 'to direct one's mind to' doing something.
- 6.96.1τῶν πρότερον
The genitive object of the perfect participle μεμνημένοι (from μιμνήσκω, which governs the genitive), meaning 'remembering the things of before'. Historically, this refers to the failed Persian siege of Naxos in 500 BC.
- 6.96.1οἴχοντο φεύγοντες
The verb οἴχομαι combined with the participle φεύγοντες expresses a sudden departure or the completion of an action, meaning 'they went off fleeing' or 'fled away'.
- 6.96.1τοὺς κατέλαβον αὐτῶν
τούς functions as a relative pronoun (or demonstrative used as relative) introducing the clause, with αὐτῶν acting as a partitive genitive: 'those of them whom [the Persians] caught'.