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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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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Describes how Aristides, during the confusion of the Battle of Salamis, landed Athenian hoplites stationed on the shore onto the island of Psyttalea and slaughtered all the Persian troops there.
Ἀριστείδης δὲ ὁ Λυσιμάχου ἀνὴρ Ἀθηναῖος, τοῦ1 καὶ ὀλίγῳ τι πρότερον τούτων ἐπεμνήσθην ὡς ἀνδρὸς ἀρίστου, οὗτος2 ἐν τῷ θορύβῳ τούτῳ τῷ περὶ Σαλαμῖνα γενομένῳ τάδε ἐποίεε· παραλαβὼν πολλοὺς τῶν ὁπλιτέων οἳ παρατετάχατο3 παρὰ τὴν ἀκτὴν τῆς Σαλαμινίης χώρης, γένος ἐόντες Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐς τὴν Ψυττάλειαν νῆσον ἀπέβησε4 ἄγων, οἳ τοὺς Πέρσας τοὺς ἐν τῇ νησῖδι ταύτῃ κατεφόνευσαν πάντας.
Aristides the son of Lysimachus, an Athenian, whom I mentioned also a little before this as a most excellent man—he, in this confusion that arose around Salamis, did as follows: taking many of the hoplites who had been stationed along the shore of the territory of Salamis, being Athenians by birth, he brought them and landed them on the island of Psyttalea, and they slaughtered all the Persians who were on that islet.
- 8.95.1τοῦ
The relative pronoun τοῦ (equivalent to Attic οὗ) refers to the antecedent Ἀριστείδης. It is in the genitive case because the verb ἐπεμνήσθην (passive aorist of μνάομαι, "to mention") governs the genitive.
- 8.95.1Ἀριστείδης ... οὗτος
The subject Ἀριστείδης is introduced at the beginning, followed by an intervening relative clause τοῦ ... ἐπεμνήσθην, and is then picked up again by the demonstrative pronoun οὗτος. This is a form of anacoluthon used for emphasis and structural clarity.
- 8.95.1παρατετάχατο
An Ionic third-person plural pluperfect passive form with the ending -ατο (corresponding to Attic -ντο for consonant-stem verbs), equivalent to παρατεταγμένοι ἦσαν ("had been stationed").
- 8.95.1ἀπέβησε
While ἀποβαίνω usually means "to disembark" (intransitive), here the first (weak) aorist ἀπέβησε is used transitively ("to land someone, put ashore"), taking the object πολλοὺς. It is distinguished from the intransitive second aorist ἀπέβη.