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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 · 2026-11-08
Artabanus warns Xerxes by recalling how the Athenians alone defeated the Persian army under Datis, pointing out that if the Greeks win a naval victory and destroy the Hellespont bridge, the Persian army will face absolute ruin.
ζεύξας φῂς τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ἐλᾶν στρατὸν διὰ τῆς Εὐρώπης ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα. καὶ δὴ καὶ συνήνεικέ1 σε ἤτοι κατὰ γῆν ἢ καὶ κατὰ θάλασσαν ἑσσωθῆναι, ἢ καὶ κατʼ ἀμφότερα· οἱ γὰρ ἄνδρες λέγονται εἶναι ἄλκιμοι, πάρεστι δὲ καὶ σταθμώσασθαι, εἰ στρατιήν γε τοσαύτην σὺν Δάτι καὶ Ἀρταφρένεϊ ἐλθοῦσαν ἐς τὴν Ἀττικὴν χώρην μοῦνοι Ἀθηναῖοι διέφθειραν.
You say that, having bridged the Hellespont, you will march your army through Europe into Greece. And indeed, suppose it should happen that you are defeated either by land or by sea, or even on both; for these men are said to be valiant, and it is possible to infer this, seeing that the Athenians alone destroyed so great an army that had come with Datis and Artaphernes into the Attic land.
οὔκων ἀμφοτέρῃ σφι ἐχώρησε.2 ἀλλʼ ἢν τῇσι νηυσὶ ἐμβάλωσι καὶ νικήσαντες ναυμαχίῃ πλέωσι ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον καὶ ἔπειτα λύσωσι τὴν γέφυραν, τοῦτο δὴ βασιλεῦ γίνεται δεινόν.
To be sure, things did not go against them on both fronts then. But if they should attack with their ships, and having won a naval battle, sail to the Hellespont and then destroy the bridge, this indeed, O King, becomes a terrible thing.
- 7.10B.1συνήνεικέ
Used impersonally with the accusative and infinitive (σε ... ἑσσωθῆναι) to mean 'it happened/befell that...'. συνήνεικε is the Ionic aorist form corresponding to Attic συνήνεγκε.
- 7.10B.2οὔκων ἀμφοτέρῃ σφι ἐχώρησε.
ἐχώρησε is used impersonally to mean 'things went/turned out'. ἀμφοτέρῃ is an adverbial dative meaning 'in both ways/on both fronts' (with an ellipse of a noun like ὁδῷ). σφι is the dative plural pronoun referring to the Persian forces under Datis. The sentence refers to the historical fact that they were not defeated on both fronts (only on land at Marathon).