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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-grc2:9.10.1-9.10.3
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Accepting Chileus' advice, the Spartan ephors secretly and immediately dispatch a large army under Pausanias. The narrative details Pausanias' lineage and explains how his father, Cleombrotus, had previously withdrawn the army from the Isthmus due to a solar eclipse.
ὃ μέν σφι ταῦτα συνεβούλευε· οἳ δὲ φρενὶ λαβόντες1 τὸν λόγον αὐτίκα, φράσαντες οὐδὲν τοῖσι ἀγγέλοισι τοῖσι ἀπιγμένοισι ἀπὸ τῶν πολίων, νυκτὸς ἔτι ἐκπέμπουσι πεντακισχιλίους Σπαρτιητέων καὶ ἑπτὰ περὶ ἕκαστον τάξαντες τῶν εἱλώτων, Παυσανίῃ τῷ Κλεομβρότου ἐπιτάξαντες ἐξάγειν.
He gave them this advice; and they, taking his words to heart at once, without saying anything to the envoys who had arrived from the cities, sent out while it was still night five thousand of the Spartans, having appointed seven of the helots to attend each of them, and having ordered Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, to lead them out.
ἐγίνετο μὲν ἡ ἡγεμονίη Πλειστάρχου τοῦ Λεωνίδεω· ἀλλʼ ὃ μὲν ἦν ἔτι παῖς, ὁ δὲ τούτου ἐπίτροπός τε καὶ ἀνεψιός.2 Κλεόμβροτος γὰρ ὁ Παυσανίεω μὲν πατὴρ Ἀναξανδρίδεω δὲ παῖς οὐκέτι περιῆν, ἀλλʼ ἀπαγαγὼν ἐκ τοῦ Ἰσθμοῦ τὴν στρατιὴν τὴν τὸ τεῖχος δείμασαν μετὰ ταῦτα οὐ πολλὸν χρόνον τινὰ βιοὺς ἀπέθανε.
Now the command belonged to Pleistarchus, the son of Leonidas; but he was still a child, and Pausanias was his guardian and cousin. For Cleombrotus, the father of Pausanias and son of Anaxandrides, was no longer alive, but had died not long after he had led back from the Isthmus the army which had built the wall.
ἀπῆγε δὲ τὴν στρατιὴν ὁ Κλεόμβροτος ἐκ τοῦ Ἰσθμοῦ διὰ τόδε· θυομένῳ οἱ3 ἐπὶ τῷ Πέρσῃ ὁ ἥλιος ἀμαυρώθη ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ. προσαιρέεται δὲ ἑωυτῷ Παυσανίης Εὐρυάνακτα τὸν Δωριέος, ἄνδρα οἰκίης ἐόντα τῆς αὐτῆς.
Cleombrotus had led the army away from the Isthmus for this reason: while he was offering sacrifice against the Persian, the sun became darkened in the sky. Pausanias chose as his colleague Euryanax, the son of Dorieus, a man of the same family.
- 9.10.1φρενὶ λαβόντες
The dative φρενί (from φρήν, mind/heart) with λαβόντες indicates not merely hearing the words, but taking them seriously and acting upon them in deep conviction.
- 9.10.2ὁ δὲ τούτου ἐπίτροπός τε καὶ ἀνεψιός
The pronoun ὁ δέ refers back to Pausanias (introduced in §9.10.1), while the demonstrative τούτου refers to Pleistarchus mentioned in the preceding clause.
- 9.10.3θυομένῳ οἱ
The middle present participle θυομένῳ is in the dative, agreeing with the personal pronoun οἱ (for/to him). This functions as a dative of reference or interest, setting the personal and temporal circumstances during which the solar eclipse occurred.