- 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-grc2:7.171.1-7.171.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-05
The author returns from the digression on the Rhegines and Tarentines to describe the resettlement of Crete after Minos, the impact of the Trojan War followed by famine, and how the Pythia's advice dissuaded the Cretans from helping the Greeks.
ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν κατὰ Ῥηγίνους τε καὶ Ταραντίνους τοῦ λόγου μοι παρενθήκη γέγονε· ἐς δὲ τὴν Κρήτην ἐρημωθεῖσαν, ὡς λέγουσι Πραίσιοι, ἐσοικίζεσθαι ἄλλους τε ἀνθρώπους καὶ μάλιστα Ἕλληνας, τρίτῃ δὲ γενεῇ μετὰ Μίνων τελευτήσαντα1 γενέσθαι τὰ Τρωικά, ἐν τοῖσι οὐ φλαυροτάτους2 φαίνεσθαι ἐόντας Κρῆτας τιμωροὺς Μενέλεῳ.
But the matters concerning the Rhegines and Tarentines have become a digression in my story. Now, into Crete, which had been left desolate, as the Praesians say, other men and especially Greeks came to settle; and in the third generation after the death of Minos the Trojan war took place, in which the Cretans showed themselves to be by no means the least important as helpers of Menelaus.
ἀπὸ τούτων δέ σφι ἀπονοστήσασι ἐκ Τροίης λιμόν τε καὶ λοιμὸν γενέσθαι καὶ αὐτοῖσι καὶ τοῖσι προβάτοισι, ἔστε τὸ δεύτερον ἐρημωθείσης Κρήτης μετὰ τῶν ὑπολοίπων τρίτους αὐτὴν νῦν νέμεσθαι Κρῆτας. ἡ μὲν δὴ Πυθίη ὑπομνήσασα ταῦτα ἔσχε βουλομένους3 τιμωρέειν τοῖσι Ἕλλησι.
But when they returned from Troy, famine and pestilence came upon them, both upon themselves and upon their cattle, until, Crete having been left desolate for the second time, the Cretans who now inhabit it came to dwell there as the third inhabitants along with the survivors. Thus indeed the Pythia, by reminding them of these things, stopped them when they wished to help the Greeks.
- 7.171.1μετὰ Μίνων τελευτήσαντα
The preposition μετά with the accusative means 'after.' Here, the accusative noun Μίνων (Ionic accusative of Μίνως) agrees with the accusative aorist participle τελευτήσαντα (having died), meaning 'after the death of Minos' (literally, 'after Minos having died').
- 7.171.1οὐ φλαυροτάτους
An example of litotes ('not the least important'), meaning 'highly distinguished' or 'very prominent'.
- 7.171.2ἔσχε βουλομένους
The verb ἔχω (aorist ἔσχον) with an accusative (βουλομένους) and an infinitive (τιμωρέειν) means 'to prevent or restrain someone from doing something.' The participle βουλομένους serves as the object of ἔσχε ('restrained them, who wished to help').