- 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-grc2:8.39.1-8.39.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Explains that the two giant hoplites who saved Delphi are local heroes, Phylacus and Autonous, and notes that the rocks that fell from Mount Parnassus remain intact in the sanctuary of Athena.
τούτους δὲ τοὺς δύο1 Δελφοὶ λέγουσι εἶναι ἐπιχωρίους ἥρωας, Φύλακόν τε καὶ Αὐτόνοον, τῶν τὰ τεμένεα ἐστὶ περὶ τὸ ἱρόν, Φυλάκου μὲν2 παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ὁδὸν κατύπερθε τοῦ ἱροῦ τῆς Προναίης, Αὐτονόου δὲ πέλας τῆς Κασταλίης ὑπὸ τῇ Ὑαμπείῃ κορυφῇ.
The Delphians say that these two are local heroes, Phylacus and Autonous, whose sanctuaries are around the temple; that of Phylacus is by the road itself, above the temple of Pronaea, and that of Autonous is near the Castalian spring, under the Hyampeia peak.
οἱ δὲ πεσόντες ἀπὸ τοῦ Παρνησοῦ λίθοι ἔτι καὶ ἐς ἡμέας ἦσαν σόοι, ἐν τῷ τεμένεϊ τῆς Προναίης Ἀθηναίης κείμενοι, ἐς τὸ3 ἐνέσκηψαν διὰ τῶν βαρβάρων φερόμενοι. τούτων μέν νυν τῶν ἀνδρῶν αὕτη ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱροῦ ἀπαλλαγὴ γίνεται.
The stones which fell from Parnassus were still preserved safe even down to our day, lying in the sanctuary of Pronaea Athena, into which they crashed as they swept through the barbarians. Such, then, was the departure of these men from the temple.
- 8.39.1τούτους δὲ τοὺς δύο
Accusative with infinitive construction dependent on the main verb λέγουσι. τούτους ... τοὺς δύο is the subject accusative of the infinitive εἶναι, while ἐπιχωρίους ἥρωας (and the appositive Φύλακόν τε καὶ Αὐτόνοον) functions as its predicate accusative.
- 8.39.1Φυλάκου μὲν
The genitives Φυλάκου and Αὐτονόου imply the omission of the previously mentioned noun τὰ τεμένεα (sanctuaries). Thus, it should be understood as "the sanctuary of Phylacus... and that of Autonous...".
- 8.39.2ἐς τό
The relative pronoun τό is neuter singular accusative, referring back to the antecedent τεμένεϊ (dative of the neuter noun τέμενος). Together with the preposition ἐς, it expresses that the stones crashed "into that sanctuary".