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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 · 2026-11-05
After Cleander's death, Hippocrates becomes tyrant of Gela, and Gelon, his bodyguard, rises to cavalry commander through military merit. Hippocrates conquers various Sicilian cities, but Syracuse preserves its independence through the mediation of Corinth and Corcyra in exchange for ceding Camarina.
οὗτος μέν νυν ἐκτήσατο τοῦτο τὸ γέρας· Κλεάνδρου δὲ τοῦ Παντάρεος τελευτήσαντος τὸν βίον, ὃς ἐτυράννευσε μὲν Γέλης ἑπτὰ ἔτεα, ἀπέθανε δὲ ὑπὸ Σαβύλλου ἀνδρὸς Γελῴου, ἐνθαῦτα ἀναλαμβάνει τὴν μουναρχίην Ἱπποκράτης Κλεάνδρου ἐὼν ἀδελφεός. ἔχοντος δὲ Ἱπποκράτεος τὴν τυραννίδα, ὁ Γέλων ἐὼν Τηλίνεω τοῦ ἱροφάντεω ἀπόγονος, πολλῶν μετʼ ἄλλων καὶ Αἰνησιδήμου τοῦ Παταίκου ὃς ἦν1 δορυφόρος Ἱπποκράτεος.
Thus he acquired this privilege. When Cleander, the son of Pantares, ended his life—having ruled as tyrant of Gela for seven years, and having been killed by Sabyllus, a man of Gela—thereupon Hippocrates, who was Cleander’s brother, took over the monarchy. While Hippocrates held the tyranny, Gelon, who was a descendant of Telines the priest, along with many others and Aenesidemus the son of Pataecus, was a bodyguard of Hippocrates.
μετὰ δὲ οὐ πολλὸν χρόνον διʼ ἀρετὴν ἀπεδέχθη πάσης τῆς ἵππου εἶναι ἵππαρχος· πολιορκέοντος γὰρ Ἱπποκράτεος Καλλιπολίτας τε καὶ Ναξίους καὶ Ζαγκλαίους τε καὶ Λεοντίνους καὶ πρὸς Συρηκοσίους τε καὶ τῶν βαρβάρων συχνούς, ἀνὴρ ἐφαίνετο ἐν τούτοισι τοῖσι πολέμοισι ἐὼν ὁ Γέλων λαμπρότατος. τῶν δὲ εἶπον πολίων τουτέων πλὴν Συρηκουσέων οὐδεμία διέφυγε δουλοσύνην πρὸς Ἱπποκράτεος·
Not long afterwards, because of his worth, he was appointed to be commander of all the cavalry. For when Hippocrates was besieging the people of Callipolis, Naxos, Zancle, and Leontini, and furthermore the Syracusans and many of the barbarians, Gelon showed himself in these wars to be a most brilliant man. Of these cities which I have mentioned, not one, except for Syracuse, escaped being enslaved by Hippocrates.
Συρηκοσίους δὲ Κορίνθιοί τε καὶ Κερκυραῖοι ἐρρύσαντο μάχῃ ἐσσωθέντας ἐπὶ ποταμῷ Ἐλώρῳ, ἐρρύσαντο δὲ οὗτοι ἐπὶ τοῖσιδε καταλλάξαντες, ἐπʼ ᾧ τε2 Ἱπποκράτεϊ Καμάριναν Συρηκοσίους παραδοῦναι. Συρηκοσίων δὲ ἦν Καμάρινα τὸ ἀρχαῖον.
But the Syracusans were rescued by the Corinthians and Corcyraeans after they had been defeated in a battle at the river Elorus; and these rescued them having made a reconciliation on these terms, that the Syracusans should hand over Camarina to Hippocrates. Now Camarina had belonged to the Syracusans from of old.
- 7.154.1ὃς ἦν
For the antecedent of the relative pronoun ὃς (nominative), some take it to be the main subject ὁ Γέλων, while others take it to be the immediately preceding Αἰνησιδήμου. Since ὃς functions as the subject in its own clause, grammatically either is possible. However, in this context of Gelon's rise from bodyguard to cavalry commander, it is highly natural to interpret ὁ Γέλων as the antecedent (or the subject of the relative clause).
- 7.154.3ἐπʼ ᾧ τε
The combination of the preposition ἐπί with the dative relative pronoun ᾧ and the particle τε, followed by the infinitive παραδοῦναι, forms a conventional expression meaning "on the condition that."