- 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
A Tenian trireme deserts to the Greeks, confirming the truth of the Persian encirclement, which brings the total number of the Greek fleet to 380 ships.
ἀπιστεόντων δὲ τούτων1 ἧκε τριήρης ἀνδρῶν Τηνίων αὐτομολέουσα, τῆς ἦρχε2 ἀνὴρ Παναίτιος ὁ Σωσιμένεος, ἥ περ δὴ ἔφερε τὴν ἀληθείην πᾶσαν. διὰ δὲ τοῦτο τὸ ἔργον ἐνεγράφησαν Τήνιοι ἐν Δελφοῖσι ἐς τὸν τρίποδα ἐν τοῖσι τὸν βάρβαρον κατελοῦσι.
While they were still disbelieving, there arrived a trireme of Tenians deserting to them, commanded by a man named Panaetius, son of Sosimenes, which indeed brought the whole truth. Because of this deed, the Tenians were inscribed at Delphi on the tripod among those who defeated the barbarian.
σὺν δὲ ὦν ταύτῃ τῇ νηὶ τῇ αὐτομολησάσῃ ἐς Σαλαμῖνα καὶ τῇ πρότερον ἐπʼ Ἀρτεμίσιον τῇ Λημνίῃ ἐξεπληροῦτο τὸ ναυτικὸν τοῖσι Ἕλλησι3 ἐς τὰς ὀγδώκοντα καὶ τριηκοσίας νέας· δύο γὰρ δὴ νεῶν τότε κατέδεε ἐς τὸν ἀριθμόν.
Now, with this ship that had deserted to Salamis and the Lemnian one that had previously done so at Artemisium, the navy was completed for the Greeks to the number of three hundred and eighty ships; for until then it had lacked two ships of that number.
- 8.82.1ἀπιστεόντων δὲ τούτων
'While they were disbelieving.' A genitive absolute construction, continuing the state of skepticism among the Greek generals mentioned in the previous sentence (οὐκ ἐπείθοντο).
- 8.82.1τῆς ἦρχε
'which he commanded.' The relative pronoun τῆς (feminine genitive) refers back to the antecedent τριήρης. The genitive case is governed by the verb ἄρχω (to rule, command).
- 8.82.2ἐξεπληροῦτο τὸ ναυτικὸν τοῖσι Ἕλλησι
'the navy was completed for the Greeks.' τοῖσι Ἕλλησι is a dative of advantage (or reference). The imperfect verb ἐξεπληροῦτο describes the process of the fleet being filled up to the total number of 380 by the addition of the two ships.