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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 · 2026-11-10
After the battle of Mycale, the Greeks debate the relocation of the Ionians at Samos. While the Peloponnesians propose evacuating Ionia, the Athenians strongly object, leading to the admission of the islanders into the alliance and the fleet's departure for the Hellespont.
ἐπείτε δὲ κατεργάσαντο οἱ Ἕλληνες τοὺς πολλοὺς τοὺς μὲν μαχομένους τοὺς δὲ καὶ φεύγοντας1 τῶν βαρβάρων, τὰς νέας ἐνέπρησαν καὶ τὸ τεῖχος ἅπαν, τὴν ληίην προεξαγαγόντες ἐς τὸν αἰγιαλόν, καὶ θησαυρούς τινας χρημάτων εὗρον· ἐμπρήσαντες δὲ τὸ τεῖχος καὶ τὰς νέας ἀπέπλεον.
When the Greeks had destroyed the majority of the barbarians, some of them fighting and others also fleeing, they carried the booty out onto the beach and burned all the ships and the wall, and they also found some treasures of money. Having burned the wall and the ships, they sailed away.
ἀπικόμενοι δὲ ἐς Σάμον οἱ Ἕλληνες ἐβουλεύοντο περὶ ἀναστάσιος τῆς Ἰωνίης, καὶ ὅκῃ χρεὸν εἴη τῆς Ἑλλάδος κατοικίσαι τῆς αὐτοὶ ἐγκρατέες ἦσαν,2 τὴν δὲ Ἰωνίην ἀπεῖναι τοῖσι βαρβάροισι· ἀδύνατον γὰρ ἐφαίνετό σφι εἶναι ἑωυτούς τε Ἰώνων προκατῆσθαι φρουρέοντας τὸν πάντα χρόνον, καὶ ἑωυτῶν μὴ προκατημένων Ἴωνας οὐδεμίαν ἐλπίδα εἶχον χαίροντας3 πρὸς τῶν Περσέων ἀπαλλάξειν.
Arriving at Samos, the Greeks held a council concerning the evacuation of Ionia, and in what part of Greece, which they themselves controlled, they ought to settle the Ionians, and whether they should abandon Ionia to the barbarians. For it seemed impossible to them that they themselves should sit on guard in front of the Ionians, keeping watch for all time, and if they themselves were not sitting in front of them, they had no hope that the Ionians would get off scot-free from the Persians.
πρὸς ταῦτα Πελοποννησίων μὲν τοῖσι ἐν τέλεϊ ἐοῦσι ἐδόκεε τῶν μηδισάντων ἐθνέων τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν τὰ ἐμπολαῖα ἐξαναστήσαντας δοῦναι τὴν χώρην Ἴωσι ἐνοικῆσαι, Ἀθηναίοισι δὲ οὐκ ἐδόκεε ἀρχὴν4 Ἰωνίην γενέσθαι ἀνάστατον οὐδὲ Πελοποννησίοισι περὶ τῶν σφετερέων ἀποικιέων βουλεύειν· ἀντιτεινόντων δὲ τούτων προθύμως, εἶξαν οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι.
To this, those of the Peloponnesians who were in authority thought it best to evict the inhabitants of the trading-places of those Greek nations that had medized, and to give that land to the Ionians to dwell in. But to the Athenians it did not seem good that Ionia should be made desolate at all, nor that the Peloponnesians should deliberate about their own colonies. Since the Athenians opposed this zealously, the Peloponnesians gave way.
καὶ οὕτω δὴ Σαμίους τε καὶ Χίους καὶ Λεσβίους καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους νησιώτας, οἳ ἔτυχον συστρατευόμενοι τοῖσι Ἕλλησι, ἐς τὸ συμμαχικὸν ἐποιήσαντο, πίστι τε καταλαβόντες καὶ ὁρκίοισι ἐμμενέειν τε καὶ μὴ ἀποστήσεσθαι. τούτους δὲ καταλαβόντες ὁρκίοισι ἔπλεον τὰς γεφύρας λύσοντες· ἔτι γὰρ ἐδόκεον ἐντεταμένας εὑρήσειν. οὗτοι μὲν δὴ ἐπʼ Ἑλλησπόντου ἔπλεον.
And thus indeed they admitted into the alliance the Samians, Chians, Lesbians, and the other islanders who happened to be serving with the Greeks, binding them by pledge and oaths to abide by it and not to revolt. Having bound them by oaths, they sailed to destroy the bridges; for they still expected to find them stretched across. These, then, sailed towards the Hellespont.
- 9.106.1τοὺς πολλοὺς τοὺς μὲν μαχομένους τοὺς δὲ καὶ φεύγοντας
An apposition of whole and part (schēma kath' holon kai meros). The phrases τοὺς μὲν ... τοὺς δὲ ... function as parts in apposition to the whole expressed by τοὺς πολλούς.
- 9.106.2τῆς αὐτοὶ ἐγκρατέες ἦσαν
The relative pronoun τῆς (equivalent to Attic ἧς) is attracted to the genitive case of its antecedent τῆς Ἑλλάδος (attraction of the relative), or is in the genitive because it is governed by the adjective ἐγκρατέες ('in control of').
- 9.106.2χαίροντας
Present participle of χαίρω ('to rejoice') in the accusative plural masculine. Here, it is used idiomatically to mean 'with impunity' or 'unscathed' (equivalent to Latin impune), agreeing with Ἴωνας, the subject of the infinitive ἀπαλλάξειν.
- 9.106.3ἀρχήν
Accusative of the noun ἀρχή ('beginning') used adverbially with a negative (here οὐκ) to mean 'at all,' 'altogether,' or 'originally,' expressing strong opposition to Ionia being made desolate.