- 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-grc2:6.99.1-6.99.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
The Persian forces sailed from Delos to other islands to recruit troops and take hostages, and subsequently besieged and forced the submission of Carystus on Euboea.
οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι ὡς ἀπήειραν ἐκ τῆς Δήλου, προσῖσχον πρὸς τὰς νήσους, ἐνθεῦτεν δὲ στρατιήν τε παρελάμβανον καὶ ὁμήρους τῶν νησιωτέων παῖδας1 ἐλάμβανον.
The barbarians, when they departed from Delos, touched at the islands, and from there they took recruited troops and received the children of the islanders as hostages.
ὡς δὲ περιπλέοντες τὰς νήσους προσέσχον καὶ ἐς Κάρυστον, οὐ γὰρ δή σφι οἱ Καρύστιοι οὔτε ὁμήρους ἐδίδοσαν οὔτε ἔφασαν ἐπὶ πόλιας ἀστυγείτονας στρατεύεσθαι, λέγοντες Ἐρέτριάν τε καὶ Ἀθήνας,2 ἐνθαῦτα τούτους ἐπολιόρκεόν τε καὶ τὴν γῆν σφεων ἔκειρον, ἐς ὃ3 καὶ οἱ Καρύστιοι παρέστησαν ἐς τῶν Περσέων τὴν γνώμην.
When, sailing around the islands, they put in also at Carystus—for indeed the Carystians would neither give them hostages nor did they say they would march against neighboring cities, meaning Eretria and Athens—thereupon the Persians besieged them and ravaged their land, until the Carystians too submitted to the will of the Persians.
- 6.99.1ὁμήρους τῶν νησιωτέων παῖδας
Meaning "the children of the islanders as hostages." παῖδας ("children") is the primary noun, while ὁμήρους ("hostages") functions in apposition or predicatively.
- 6.99.2οὐ γὰρ δή σφι οἱ Καρύστιοι... λέγοντες Ἐρέτριάν τε καὶ Ἀθήνας
A parenthetical clause inserted between the subordinate clause introduced by ὡς ("when") and the main clause starting with ἐνθαῦτα ("thereupon"). It explains the cause (the Carystians' refusal to give hostages or participate in the campaign) that led to the Persian siege.
- 6.99.2ἐς ὃ
An Ionic expression equivalent to Attic ἕως ("until"). Used here with the indicative (παρέστησαν) to denote an actual past result ("until at last they submitted").