- 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-grc2:8.28.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
The passage summarizes the damage the Phocians inflicted on the Thessalian infantry and describes the stratagem by which they caused incurable damage to the Thessalian cavalry using a trap of buried empty amphorae near Hyampolis.
ταῦτα μέν νυν τὸν πεζὸν ἐργάσαντο τῶν Θεσσαλῶν οἱ Φωκέες πολιορκέοντας1 ἑωυτούς· ἐσβαλοῦσαν δὲ ἐς τὴν χώρην τὴν ἵππον αὐτῶν ἐλυμήναντο ἀνηκέστως. ἐν γὰρ τῇ ἐσβολῇ ἣ ἐστὶ κατὰ Ὑάμπολιν, ἐν ταύτῃ τάφρον μεγάλην ὀρύξαντες ἀμφορέας κενεοὺς ἐς αὐτὴν κατέθηκαν, χοῦν δὲ ἐπιφορήσαντες καὶ ὁμοιώσαντες τῷ ἄλλῳ χώρῳ ἐδέκοντο τοὺς Θεσσαλοὺς ἐσβάλλοντας. οἳ δὲ ὡς ἀναρπασόμενοι2 τοὺς Φωκέας φερόμενοι ἐσέπεσον ἐς τοὺς ἀμφορέας. ἐνθαῦτα οἱ ἵπποι τὰ σκέλεα3 διεφθάρησαν.
These things, then, the Phocians did to the Thessalian infantry who were besieging them; but their cavalry, when they invaded their territory, they ruined incurably. For in the pass which is near Hyampolis, in that very place they dug a great trench and put empty amphorae into it; and having carried earth over them and made it like the rest of the ground, they awaited the invading Thessalians. And they, rushing forward as if to sweep the Phocians away, fell in among the amphorae. There the horses had their legs broken.
- 8.28.1τὸν πεζὸν ... πολιορκέοντας
The plural participle πολιορκέοντας agrees with the singular collective noun τὸν πεζὸν (the infantry). This is an instance of constructio ad sensum (agreement according to sense), referring to the individual soldiers making up the infantry.
- 8.28.1ὡς ἀναρπασόμενοι
The conjunction ὡς combined with the future participle ἀναρπασόμενοι (future middle participle nominative plural of ἀναρπάζω) expresses the intention, purpose, or subjective expectation of the subjects ('as if to sweep away' or 'intending to carry off').
- 8.28.1τὰ σκέλεα
This is an accusative of respect (or specification) used with the passive verb διεφθάρησαν ('were ruined/destroyed'), meaning 'were ruined in respect to their legs', i.e., 'had their legs broken'.