- Source
- Polybius. Vols. 1-4. Büttner-Wobst, Theodor, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:23.13.1-23.13.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
The greatest proof of this man's leadership is presented: despite leading a diverse multinational army in the field for seventeen years, he was never once betrayed or plotted against by any of his followers.
ὅτι θαυμαστόν ἐστι καὶ μέγιστον σημεῖον γεγονέναι1 τῇ φύσει τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον ἡγεμονικὸν καὶ πολύ τι διαφέροντα τῶν ἄλλων πρὸς τὸν πραγματικὸν τρόπον·
That it is a wonderful thing and the greatest proof that this man was by nature fit for leadership and far superior to others in his practical conduct;
ἑπτακαίδεκα γὰρ ἔτη μείνας ἐν τοῖς ὑπαίθροις πλεῖστά τʼ ἔθνη καὶ βάρβαρα διεξελθὼν καὶ πλείστοις ἀνδράσιν ἀλλοφύλοις καὶ ἑτερογλώττοις χρησάμενος συνεργοῖς πρὸς ἀπηλπισμένας καὶ παραδόξους ἐπιβολάς, ὑπʼ οὐθενὸς οὔτʼ ἐπεβουλεύθη τὸ παράπαν οὔτʼ ἐγκατελείφθη τῶν ἅπαξ αὐτῷ κοινωνησάντων2 καὶ δόντων ἑαυτοὺς εἰς χεῖρας. —
for although he remained for seventeen years in the field, and traversed very many and barbarian nations, and employed very many men of different races and languages as his helpers in desperate and unexpected enterprises, he was never once plotted against by any of those who had once associated with him and put themselves into his hands, nor was he ever abandoned by them. —
- 23.13.1γεγονέναι
The perfect infinitive γεγονέναι, with its accusative subject τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον, functions in apposition to explain the content of the noun σημεῖον (proof) in the main clause.
- 23.13.2τῶν ἅπαξ αὐτῷ κοινωνησάντων
This participle phrase with the genitive article functions as a partitive genitive qualifying οὐθενὸς (no one) in the prepositional phrase ὑπʼ οὐθενὸς.