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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-grc2:8.30.1-8.30.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Describes how the Phocians rejected the demands of the Thessalians and presents the author's inference that the Phocians' refusal to side with the Persians was motivated solely by their hatred of the Thessalians.
ταῦτά σφι ἐπαγγέλλοντο οἱ Θεσσαλοί. οἱ γὰρ Φωκέες μοῦνοι τῶν ταύτῃ ἀνθρώπων οὐκ ἐμήδιζον, κατʼ ἄλλο μὲν οὐδέν, ὡς ἐγὼ συμβαλλόμενος εὑρίσκω,1 κατὰ δὲ τὸ ἔχθος τὸ Θεσσαλῶν·
These were the proposals that the Thessalians made to them. For the Phocians were the only people in these parts who did not side with the Medes, for no other reason, as I find by conjecturing, than because of their hatred of the Thessalians.
εἰ δὲ Θεσσαλοὶ τὰ Ἑλλήνων ηὖξον, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκέειν,2 ἐμήδιζον ἂν3 οἱ Φωκέες. ταῦτα ἐπαγγελλομένων Θεσσαλῶν, οὔτε δώσειν ἔφασαν χρήματα, παρέχειν4 τε σφίσι Θεσσαλοῖσι ὁμοίως μηδίζειν, εἰ ἄλλως βουλοίατο· ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἔσεσθαι ἑκόντες εἶναι5 προδόται τῆς Ἑλλάδος.
Indeed, if the Thessalians had supported the cause of the Greeks, in my opinion, the Phocians would have sided with the Medes. When the Thessalians made these proposals, the Phocians said they would not give them any money, and that they had just as much opportunity as the Thessalians to side with the Medes, if they wished to do otherwise; but they would not, of their own free will, be traitors to Greece.
- 8.30.1ὡς ἐγὼ συμβαλλόμενος εὑρίσκω
A parenthetical clause containing the present participle συμβαλλόμενος ("putting things together," "conjecturing"), indicating that the author is drawing an inference based on the available evidence.
- 8.30.2ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκέειν
An absolute or restrictive infinitive (δοκέειν, the Ionic form of δοκεῖν), used parenthetically to mean "in my opinion" or "as it seems to me."
- 8.30.2εἰ δὲ Θεσσαλοὶ τὰ Ἑλλήνων ηὖξον... ἐμήδιζον ἂν
A counterfactual conditional sentence using the imperfect indicative in both the protasis (ηὖξον) and apodosis with ἂν (ἐμήδιζον ἂν), expressing a past or ongoing present counterfactual situation.
- 8.30.2παρέχειν
The infinitive of the impersonal verb παρέχει ("it is possible / allowed"), depending on the preceding ἔφασαν ("they said") in indirect speech. Its logical subject is the dative indirect reflexive pronoun σφίσι (referring to the Phocians themselves).
- 8.30.2ἑκόντες εἶναι
An idiomatic absolute infinitive construction consisting of the adjective ἑκών and the infinitive εἶναι, typically used in negative sentences to mean "of their own free will" or "willingly."