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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-grc2:8.14.1-8.14.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Encouraged by the arrival of Athenian reinforcements and the news of the Persian fleet's destruction off Euboea, the Greeks launch a successful dusk attack on Cilician ships before returning to Artemisium.
οὗτοι μέν νυν περὶ τὰ Κοῖλα τῆς Εὐβοίης διεφθείροντο· οἱ δʼ ἐν Ἀφέτῃσι βάρβαροι, ὥς σφι ἀσμένοισι ἡμέρη ἐπέλαμψε,1 ἀτρέμας τε εἶχον τὰς νέας καί σφι ἀπεχρᾶτο κακῶς πρήσουσι2 ἡσυχίην ἄγειν ἐν τῷ παρεόντι. τοῖσι δε Ἕλλησι ἐπεβοήθεον νέες τρεῖς καὶ πεντήκοντα Ἀττικαί.
These men, then, were destroyed around the “Hollows” of Euboea; but the barbarians at Aphetae, when to their joy the day dawned, kept their ships quiet, and since they were in a bad way, it was enough for them to remain inactive for the present. Meanwhile, fifty-three Attic ships came to reinforce the Greeks.
αὗταί τε δή σφεας ἐπέρρωσαν3 ἀπικόμεναι καὶ ἅμα ἀγγελίη ἐλθοῦσα, ὡς τῶν βαρβάρων οἱ περιπλέοντες τὴν Εὔβοιαν πάντες εἴησαν διεφθαρμένοι ὑπὸ τοῦ γενομένου χειμῶνος. φυλάξαντες δὴ τὴν αὐτὴν ὥρην, πλέοντες ἐπέπεσον νηυσὶ Κιλίσσῃσι· ταύτας δὲ διαφθείραντες, ὡς εὐφρόνη ἐγίνετο, ἀπέπλεον ὀπίσω ἐπὶ τὸ Ἀρτεμίσιον.
Both the arrival of these ships and, at the same time, the coming of a message that all of the barbarians sailing around Euboea had been destroyed by the storm that had occurred, encouraged them. Waiting for the same hour as before, they sailed out and fell upon some Cilician ships; and having destroyed them, as darkness came on, they sailed back to Artemisium.
- 8.14.1ὥς σφι ἀσμένοισι ἡμέρη ἐπέλαμψε
An idiomatic expression meaning "to their joy, the day dawned." The dative pronoun σφι and the dative adjective ἀσμένοισι ('glad') function together as a dative of interest/reference, expressing the attitude of the persons affected by the action of the verb.
- 8.14.1κακῶς πρήσουσι
An intransitive use of the verb πράσσω (Ionic πρήσσω) with the adverb κακῶς, meaning 'to be in a bad way' or 'to suffer.' It is a present participle in the dative plural, modifying the preceding pronoun σφι.
- 8.14.2αὗται... ἀπικόμεναι καὶ ἅμα ἀγγελίη ἐλθοῦσα... ἐπέρρωσαν
Although the grammatical subjects are 'these ships' (αὗται) and 'a message' (ἀγγελίη), accompanied by their respective participles ἀπικόμεναι and ἐλθοῦσα, they function semantically as nominal clauses ('the arrival of these ships' and 'the arrival of the message') serving as the subjects of the verb ἐπέρρωσαν ('encouraged').