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Herodotus · Histories §5.117.1

Daurises' Hellespont Campaign and March to Caria

Passage 893 of 1577 · Greek

Summary

Daurises captures several cities in the Hellespont one after another, but upon receiving news of the Carians' rebellion, he redirects his army toward Caria.

§5.117.1Δαυρίσης μὲν τραπόμενος πρὸς τὰς ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ πόλις εἷλε μὲν Δάρδανον, εἷλε δὲ Ἄβυδόν τε καὶ Περκώτην καὶ Λάμψακον καὶ Παισόν.
Daurises, turning to the cities in the Hellespont, captured Dardanus, and captured Abydos, Percote, Lampsacus, and Paesus.
ταύτας μὲν ἐπʼ ἡμέρῃ ἑκάστῃ αἵρεε, ἀπὸ δὲ Παισοῦ ἐλαύνοντί οἱ ἐπὶ Πάριον πόλιν ἦλθε ἀγγελίη τοὺς Κᾶρας τὠυτὸ Ἴωσι φρονήσαντας ἀπεστάναι ἀπὸ Περσέων.
These he captured at the rate of one each day, but as he was marching from Paesus against the city of Parium, news came to him that the Carians, having come to the same mind as the Ionians, had revolted from the Persians.
ἀποστρέψας ὦν ἐκ τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου ἤλαυνε τὸν στρατὸν ἐπὶ τὴν Καρίην.
Turning back, therefore, from the Hellespont, he marched his army against Caria.

Notes

  1. 5.117.1ἐλαύνοντί οἱ — Meaning "as he was marching." The dative pronoun οἱ (to him) is qualified by the dative present participle ἐλαύνοντι, functioning as a dative of reference with the main verb ἦλθε and the noun ἀγγελίη ("news came to him as he was marching").
  2. 5.117.1τὠυτὸ Ἴωσι φρονήσαντας — A combination of the verb φρονέω with the contracted neuter accusative object τὠυτό (= τὸ αὐτό, "the same thing") and the dative of association Ἴωσι ("with the Ionians"). It literally means "having thought the same thing as the Ionians," translating to "having made common cause with the Ionians." The aorist participle in the accusative plural modifies τοὺς Κᾶρας.
  3. 5.117.1ἀπεστάναι — The perfect active infinitive of ἀφίστημι. It is used in indirect discourse (accusative and infinitive construction) representing the content of the noun ἀγγελίη (news), with τοὺς Κᾶρας as its subject accusative ("news that the Carians had revolted").

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Herodotus, Histories §5.117.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:5.117.1

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