- 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-grc2:8.12.1-8.12.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
A midsummer storm after the sea-fight and the wreckage drifting to Aphetae plunge the Persian soldiers into deep terror.
ὡς δὲ εὐφρόνη ἐγεγόνεε, ἦν μὲν τῆς ὥρης1 μέσον θέρος, ἐγίνετο δὲ ὕδωρ τε ἄπλετον διὰ πάσης τῆς νυκτὸς καὶ σκληραὶ βρονταὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Πηλίου· οἱ δὲ νεκροὶ καὶ τὰ ναυήγια ἐξεφέποντο ἐς τὰς Ἀφέτας, καὶ περί τε τὰς πρῴρας τῶν νεῶν εἱλέοντο καὶ ἐτάρασσον τοὺς ταρσοὺς τῶν κωπέων.
When night fell, although it was midsummer, there came a torrential rain all through the night and violent thunder from Mount Pelion; the corpses and shipwrecks were washed out to Aphetae, and they crowded around the prows of the ships and tangled the blades of the oars.
οἱ δὲ στρατιῶται οἱ ταύτῃ ἀκούοντες ταῦτα ἐς φόβον κατιστέατο,2 ἐλπίζοντες πάγχυ ἀπολέεσθαι ἐς οἷα κακὰ ἧκον.3 πρὶν γὰρ ἢ καὶ ἀναπνεῦσαι σφέας4 ἔκ τε τῆς ναυηγίης καὶ τοῦ χειμῶνος τοῦ γενομένου κατὰ Πήλιον, ὑπέλαβε ναυμαχίη καρτερή, ἐκ δὲ τῆς ναυμαχίης ὄμβρος τε λάβρος καὶ ῥεύματα ἰσχυρὰ ἐς θάλασσαν ὁρμημένα βρονταί τε σκληραί.
The soldiers who were there, hearing this, fell into a panic, expecting that they would utterly perish, considering what misfortunes they had come into. For before they could even recover their breath from the shipwreck and the storm that had occurred by Pelion, a fierce sea-fight overtook them, and after the sea-fight came torrential rain, strong torrents rushing into the sea, and violent thunder.
- 8.12.1τῆς ὥρης
Partitive genitive modifying μέσον θέρος (midsummer), meaning "midsummer of the season."
- 8.12.2κατιστέατο
Ionic 3rd person plural pluperfect (used in the sense of an imperfect) of καθίστημι, corresponding to Attic καθίσταντο.
- 8.12.2ἐς οἷα κακὰ ἧκον
An indirect exclamation meaning "into what kind of evils they had come." ἧκον is an imperfect with pluperfect sense.
- 8.12.2πρὶν γὰρ ἢ καὶ ἀναπνεῦσαι σφέας
The conjunction πρὶν ἢ is followed by the infinitive ἀναπνεῦσαι, with the accusative σφέας (Ionic for "them") acting as its subject. It means "for before they could recover their breath."