- 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-grc2:9.7B.1-9.7B.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
The Athenian envoys reproach the Spartans for neglecting their alliance once the Isthmian wall was finished, and demand that they immediately dispatch an army to join forces against the Persians on the Thriasian plain.
ὑμεῖς δὲ ἐς πᾶσαν ἀρρωδίην τότε ἀπικόμενοι μὴ ὁμολογήσωμεν1 τῷ Πέρσῃ, ἐπείτε ἐξεμάθετε τὸ ἡμέτερον φρόνημα σαφέως, ὅτι οὐδαμὰ προδώσομεν τὴν Ἑλλάδα, καὶ διότι τεῖχος ὑμῖν διὰ τοῦ Ἰσθμοῦ ἐλαυνόμενον ἐν τέλεϊ ἐστί, καὶ δὴ λόγον οὐδένα τῶν Ἀθηναίων ποιέεσθε, συνθέμενοί τε ἡμῖν τὸν Πέρσην ἀντιώσεσθαι ἐς τὴν Βοιωτίην προδεδώκατε, περιείδετέ τε προεσβαλόντα2 ἐς τὴν Ἀττικὴν τὸν βάρβαρον.
But you, although at that time you were in utter dread lest we should make an agreement with the Persian, as soon as you had clearly learned our resolve, that we will never betray Greece, and because your wall being built across the Isthmus was finished, you now pay no regard to the Athenians; and although you had agreed with us to face the Persian in Boeotia, you have betrayed us, and stood by and allowed the barbarian to invade Attica.
ἐς μέν νυν τὸ παρεὸν Ἀθηναῖοι ὑμῖν μηνίουσι· οὐ γὰρ ἐποιήσατε ἐπιτηδέως. νῦν δὲ ὅτι τάχος3 στρατιὴν ἅμα ἡμῖν ἐκέλευσαν ὑμέας ἐκπέμπειν, ὡς ἂν τὸν βάρβαρον δεκώμεθα ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἡμάρτομεν τῆς Βοιωτίης, τῆς γε ἡμετέρης ἐπιτηδεότατον ἐστὶ μαχέσασθαι τὸ Θριάσιον πεδίον.
For the present, then, the Athenians are angry with you, for you did not act properly. But now they bid you send out an army with us as quickly as possible, so that we may receive the barbarian in Attica; for since we have lost Boeotia, the Thriasian plain is the most suitable place in our own territory to fight.
- 9.7B.1μὴ ὁμολογήσωμεν
The subjunctive (aorist first-person plural) with μή after an expression of fearing (the nominal phrase ἐς πᾶσαν ἀρρωδίην ἀπικόμενοι, 'falling into every dread'), expressing apprehension: 'lest we should come to terms.'
- 9.7B.1περιείδετέ τε προεσβαλόντα
The verb περιοράω (to overlook, allow) takes a participle (προεσβαλόντα, agreeing with τὸν βάρβαρον) to express the idea of standing by and allowing an action to take place: 'you stood by and allowed the barbarian to invade.'
- 9.7B.2ὅτι τάχος
An adverbial idiom equivalent to ὡς τάχιστα, meaning 'as quickly as possible.'