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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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Prompted by the arrival of spring and Mardonius' movements, the Greek fleet assembles at Aegina. Leutychides, of the Spartan royal line, commands the fleet, while Xanthippus leads the Athenians.
τοὺς δὲ Ἕλληνας τό τε ἔαρ γινόμενον ἤγειρε καὶ Μαρδόνιος ἐν Θεσσαλίῃ ἐών. ὁ μὲν δὴ πεζὸς οὔκω συνελέγετο, ὁ δὲ ναυτικὸς ἀπίκετο ἐς Αἴγιναν, νέες ἀριθμὸν δέκα καὶ ἑκατόν.
As for the Greeks, they were aroused by the coming of spring and by Mardonius, who was in Thessaly. Their land army had not yet assembled, but their fleet arrived at Aegina, numbering one hundred and ten ships.
στρατηγὸς δὲ καὶ ναύαρχος ἦν Λευτυχίδης ὁ Μενάρεος τοῦ Ἡγησίλεω τοῦ Ἱπποκρατίδεω τοῦ Λευτυχίδεω τοῦ Ἀναξίλεω τοῦ Ἀρχιδήμου τοῦ Ἀναξανδρίδεω τοῦ Θεοπόμπου τοῦ Νικάνδρου τοῦ Χαρίλεω τοῦ Εὐνόμου τοῦ Πολυδέκτεω τοῦ Πρυτάνιος τοῦ Εὐρυφῶντος τοῦ Προκλέος τοῦ Ἀριστοδήμου τοῦ Ἀριστομάχου τοῦ Κλεοδαίου τοῦ Ὕλλου τοῦ Ἡρακλέος, ἐὼν τῆς ἑτέρης οἰκίης τῶν βασιλέων.1
The general and naval commander was Leutychides, the son of Menares, son of Hegesilaus, son of Hippocratides, son of Leutychides, son of Anaxilaus, son of Archidamus, son of Anaxandrides, son of Theopompus, son of Nicander, son of Charilaus, son of Eunomus, son of Polydectes, son of Prytanis, son of Euryphon, son of Procles, son of Aristodemus, son of Aristomachus, son of Cleodaeus, son of Hyllus, son of Heracles, being of the other of the two royal houses.
οὗτοι πάντες, πλὴν τῶν ἑπτὰ τῶν μετὰ Λευτυχίδεα πρώτων καταλεχθέντων,2 οἱ ἄλλοι βασιλέες ἐγένοντο Σπάρτης. Ἀθηναίων δὲ ἐστρατήγεε Ξάνθιππος ὁ Ἀρίφρονος.
All of these, except the first seven named after Leutychides, had been kings of Sparta. And the general of the Athenians was Xanthippus, the son of Ariphron.
- 8.131.2ἐὼν τῆς ἑτέρης οἰκίης τῶν βασιλέων
The participle ἐὼν agrees with the subject Leutychides, explaining that he belonged to the latter of the two Spartan royal houses (the Eurypontid line, as opposed to the Agiad line).
- 8.131.3τῶν ἑπτὰ τῶν μετὰ Λευτυχίδεα πρώτων καταλεχθέντων
Refers to the first seven ancestors named in retrogressive order after Leutychides (from Menares to Anaxandrides). These seven did not reign as kings, whereas their predecessors (from Theopompus back to Procles) were kings of Sparta.