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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-grc2:9.99.1-9.99.3
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As the Greeks landed and prepared for battle, the Persians, fearing treason from the Ionians, disarmed the Samians and sent the Milesians to guard the mountain passes to keep them out of the camp.
Λευτυχίδεω δὲ ταῦτα ὑποθεμένου δεύτερα δὴ τάδε ἐποίευν οἱ Ἕλληνες· προσσχόντες τὰς νέας ἀπέβησαν ἐς τὸν αἰγιαλόν. καὶ οὗτοι μὲν ἐτάσσοντο, οἱ δὲ Πέρσαι ὡς εἶδον τοὺς Ἕλληνας παρασκευαζομένους ἐς μάχην καὶ τοῖσι Ἴωσι παραινέσαντας, τοῦτο μὲν1 ὑπονοήσαντες τοὺς Σαμίους τὰ Ἑλλήνων φρονέειν ἀπαιρέονται τὰ ὅπλα.2
Leotychides having made this suggestion, the Greeks next did as follows: they brought their ships to land and disembarked on the beach. And while these were drawing up their lines, the Persians, when they saw the Greeks preparing for battle and having exhorted the Ionians, on the one hand, suspecting that the Samians favored the Greek cause, deprived them of their arms.
οἱ γὰρ ὦν Σάμιοι ἀπικομένων Ἀθηναίων αἰχμαλώτων ἐν τῇσι νηυσὶ τῶν βαρβάρων, τοὺς ἔλαβον ἀνὰ τὴν Ἀττικὴν λελειμμένους οἱ Ξέρξεω, τούτους λυσάμενοι πάντας ἀποπέμπουσι ἐποδιάσαντες ἐς Ἀθήνας· τῶν εἵνεκεν οὐκ ἥκιστα ὑποψίην εἶχον, πεντακοσίας κεφαλὰς τῶν Ξέρξεω πολεμίων λυσάμενοι.
For indeed, when those Athenian captives, whom Xerxes’ men had captured having been left behind in Attica, arrived in the ships of the barbarians, the Samians ransomed them all and sent them back to Athens, having provided them with provisions for the journey; on account of which they were held in no small suspicion, having ransomed five hundred persons who were enemies of Xerxes.
τοῦτο δὲ τὰς διόδους τὰς ἐς τὰς κορυφὰς τῆς Μυκάλης φερούσας προστάσσουσι τοῖσι Μιλησίοισι φυλάσσειν ὡς ἐπισταμένοισι δῆθεν μάλιστα τὴν χώρην. ἐποίευν δὲ τοῦτο τοῦδε εἵνεκεν, ἵνα ἐκτὸς τοῦ στρατοπέδου ἔωσι. τούτους μὲν Ἰώνων, τοῖσι καὶ κατεδόκεον νεοχμὸν ἄν τι ποιέειν δυνάμιος ἐπιλαβομένοισι,3 τρόποισι τοιούτοισι προεφυλάσσοντο οἱ Πέρσαι, αὐτοὶ δὲ συνεφόρησαν τὰ γέρρα ἕρκος εἶναι σφίσι.
And on the other hand, they ordered the Milesians to guard the passes leading to the ridges of Mycale, on the pretext that they knew the country best. But they did this for this reason, so that they might be outside the camp. Against these of the Ionians, whom they suspected would do some mischief if they got the power, the Persians took precautions in such ways, and they themselves brought together their wicker shields to be a rampart for them.
- 9.99.1τοῦτο μὲν
τοῦτο μὲν (in §9.99.1) correlates with τοῦτο δὲ (in §9.99.3) to form a "firstly... secondly..." structure, contrasting the two preventive measures taken by the Persians against different Ionian groups.
- 9.99.1ἀπαιρέονται τὰ ὅπλα
The verb ἀπαιρέομαι (to deprive of) takes a double accusative. Here, both τοὺς Σαμίους (representing "from whom") and τὰ ὅπλα (representing "what") are placed in the accusative case as direct objects.
- 9.99.3νεοχμὸν ἄν τι ποιέειν δυνάμιος ἐπιλαβομένοισι
The particle ἄν is attached to the infinitive ποιέειν, expressing a potential action ("might start a rebellion"). It functions as the apodosis of a conditional construction, with the dative participle δυνάμιος ἐπιλαβομένοισι ("if they obtained power") serving as the protasis.