- Source
- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
When Mardonius goes around asking each commander about the sea-fight, everyone else favors engaging in battle, while Artemisia is about to express a different opinion.
ἐπεὶ δὲ περιιὼν εἰρώτα ὁ Μαρδόνιος ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ Σιδωνίου,1 οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι κατὰ τὠυτὸ2 γνώμην ἐξεφέροντο3 κελεύοντες ναυμαχίην ποιέεσθαι, Ἀρτεμισίη δὲ τάδε ἔφη.
When Mardonius went around and questioned them, beginning with the Sidonian, the others expressed their opinion to the same effect, urging that they should engage in a sea-fight; but Artemisia said as follows:
- 8.68.1ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ Σιδωνίου
The aorist middle participle ἀρξάμενος is used idiomatically to mean "beginning with." Here, τοῦ Σιδωνίου refers to the "king of Sidon" mentioned in the preceding section (8.67.2).
- 8.68.1κατὰ τὠυτὸ
An Ionic dialectal form where κατὰ τὸ αὐτό is contracted by crasis, meaning "in the same way" or "unanimously."
- 8.68.1γνώμην ἐξεφέροντο
The imperfect middle ἐξεφέροντο expresses that they were bringing forward or expressing their opinions one after another, or progressively.