- 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-grc2:9.105.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Describes how the Athenians and their warrior Hermolycus distinguished themselves most in the Battle of Mycale, Hermolycus' subsequent death in a later war, and the exploits of the Corinthians and others.
ἐν δὲ ταύτῃ τῇ μάχῃ Ἑλλήνων ἠρίστευσαν Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ Ἀθηναίων Ἑρμόλυκος ὁ Εὐθοίνου, ἀνὴρ παγκράτιον ἐπασκήσας. τοῦτον δὲ τὸν Ἑρμόλυκον κατέλαβε ὕστερον τούτων, πολέμου ἐόντος Ἀθηναίοισί τε καὶ Καρυστίοισι, ἐν Κύρνῳ τῆς Καρυστίης χώρης ἀποθανόντα ἐν μάχῃ κεῖσθαι1 ἐπὶ Γεραιστῷ. μετὰ δὲ Ἀθηναίους Κορίνθιοι καὶ Τροιζήνιοι καὶ Σικυώνιοι ἠρίστευσαν.
In this battle, of the Greeks, the Athenians distinguished themselves most, and of the Athenians, Hermolycus the son of Euthoinus, a man who had practiced the pancratium. To this Hermolycus it befell later, when there was a war between the Athenians and the Carystians, to die in battle at Cyrnus in the Carystian territory and to lie buried at Geraestus. After the Athenians, the Corinthians, Troezenians, and Sicyonians distinguished themselves.
- 9.105.1κατέλαβε ... ἀποθανόντα ... κεῖσθαι
κατέλαβε (third-person singular aorist of καταλαμβάνω) takes an accusative (τοῦτον τὸν Ἑρμόλυκον) and an infinitive (κεῖσθαι) to form a construction meaning 'it befell someone to...' or 'someone met the fate of...'. The accusative participle ἀποθανόντα (aorist active participle of ἀποθνῄσκω) agrees with the accusative subject of the infinitive, Hermolycus.