- Source
- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- CTS URN
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:8.103.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Xerxes gladly accepts Artemisia's advice as it matches his own thoughts, praises her, and sends her to Ephesus with his illegitimate children.
ἥσθη τε δὴ τῇ συμβουλίῃ Ξέρξης· λέγουσα γὰρ ἐπετύγχανε1 τά περ αὐτὸς ἐνόεε. οὐδὲ γὰρ εἰ πάντες καὶ πᾶσαι συνεβούλευον αὐτῷ μένειν, ἔμενε ἂν δοκέειν ἐμοί·2 οὕτω καταρρωδήκεε. ἐπαινέσας δὲ τὴν Ἀρτεμισίην, ταύτην μὲν ἀποστέλλει ἄγουσαν αὐτοῦ παῖδας ἐς Ἔφεσον· νόθοι γὰρ τινὲς παῖδές οἱ συνέσποντο.
Xerxes was indeed pleased with the advice; for she happened to speak the very things that he himself was thinking. For not even if all men and women had advised him to remain, would he have remained, in my opinion; so terrified was he. Having praised Artemisia, he sent her away to take his children to Ephesus; for some of his illegitimate sons had accompanied him.
- 8.103.1λέγουσα γὰρ ἐπετύγχανε
The verb ἐπιτυγχάνω is used with the present participle λέγουσα to mean "to happen to do" or "to succeed in doing." It indicates that Artemisia's words hit exactly upon what Xerxes was thinking.
- 8.103.1ἔμενε ἂν δοκέειν ἐμοί
ἔμενε ἄν is the apodosis of a contrary-to-fact condition, responding to the preceding εἰ ... συνεβούλευον (imperfect). δοκέειν ἐμοί is an absolute infinitive used parenthetically to mean "in my opinion" or "as it seems to me."