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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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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:7.213.1-7.213.3
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-07
Ephialtes the Malian visits the Persian king seeking a reward and reveals the mountain path to Thermopylae. He later flees in fear of the Spartans and is killed due to a separate grievance, though he is still rewarded by the Spartans.
ἀπορέοντος δὲ βασιλέος ὅ τι χρήσηται1 τῷ παρεόντι πρήγματι, Ἐπιάλτης ὁ Εὐρυδήμου ἀνὴρ Μηλιεὺς ἦλθέ οἱ ἐς λόγους· ὃς μέγα τι παρὰ βασιλέος δοκέων οἴσεσθαι2 ἔφρασέ τε τὴν ἀτραπὸν τὴν διὰ τοῦ ὄρεος φέρουσαν ἐς Θερμοπύλας, καὶ διέφθειρε τοὺς ταύτῃ ὑπομείναντας Ἑλλήνων.
While the king was at a loss as to how to deal with the present situation, Ephialtes, son of Eurydemus, a Malian, came to speak with him. Expecting to win a great reward from the king, he revealed the path that led through the mountain to Thermopylae, and brought ruin upon those of the Greeks who held their ground there.
ὕστερον δὲ δείσας Λακεδαιμονίους ἔφυγε ἐς Θεσσαλίην, καί οἱ φυγόντι3 ὑπὸ τῶν Πυλαγόρων τῶν Ἀμφικτυόνων ἐς τὴν Πυλαίην συλλεγομένων ἀργύριον ἐπεκηρύχθη. χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον, κατῆλθε γὰρ ἐς Ἀντικύρην, ἀπέθανε ὑπὸ Ἀθηνάδεω ἀνδρὸς Τρηχινίου.
Later, fearing the Lacedaemonians, he fled to Thessaly, and while he was in exile, a price was put on his head by the Amphictyonic deputies (Pylagori) assembled at Pylae. Some time afterwards, for he had returned to Anticyra, he was killed by Athenades, a man of Trachis.
ὁ δὲ Ἀθηνάδης οὗτος ἀπέκτεινε μὲν Ἐπιάλτεα διʼ ἄλλην αἰτίην, τὴν ἐγὼ ἐν τοῖσι ὄπισθε λόγοισι σημανέω, ἐτιμήθη μέντοι ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων οὐδὲν ἧσσον.
This Athenades killed Ephialtes for another reason, which I shall declare in the later part of my history, but he was honored by the Lacedaemonians no less on that account.
- 7.213.1ὅ τι χρήσηται
Deliberative subjunctive (third-person singular) in an indirect question. The verb χράομαι ("to deal with, use") governs the dative τῷ παρεόντι πρήγματι.
- 7.213.1οἴσεσθαι
Future middle infinitive of φέρω ("to win, carry off"). It is dependent on the participle δοκέων ("expecting"), and since its subject is identical with the subject of the clause (ὃς), no subject accusative is expressed.
- 7.213.2οἱ φυγόντι
Dative third-person singular pronoun οἱ combined with the aorist active participle dative φυγόντι of φεύγω ("to flee, go into exile"). It functions as a dative of disadvantage with the passive verb ἐπεκηρύχθη ("was proclaimed").