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Herodotus · Histories §7.202.1

Contingents and Numbers of the Greek Army at Thermopylae

Passage 1265 of 1577 · Greek

Summary

The text lists the components of the Greek allied forces awaiting the Persian army at Thermopylae, specifying the numbers and cities of origin from the Peloponnese and Boeotia.

§7.202.1ἦσαν δὲ οἵδε Ἑλλήνων οἱ ὑπομένοντες τὸν Πέρσην ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χώρῳ, Σπαρτιητέων τε τριηκόσιοι ὁπλῖται καὶ Τεγεητέων καὶ Μαντινέων χίλιοι, ἡμίσεες ἑκατέρων, ἐξ Ὀρχομενοῦ τε τῆς Ἀρκαδίης εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν, καὶ ἐκ τῆς λοιπῆς Ἀρκαδίης χίλιοι· τοσοῦτοι μὲν Ἀρκάδων, ἀπὸ δὲ Κορίνθου τετρακόσιοι καὶ ἀπὸ Φλειοῦντος διηκόσιοι καὶ Μυκηναίων ὀγδώκοντα.
The Greeks who awaited the Persian in this place were these: three hundred hoplites of the Spartans, and a thousand of the Tegeans and Mantineans (half of each), a hundred and twenty from Orchomenus in Arcadia, and a thousand from the rest of Arcadia (this was the number of the Arcadians); and from Corinth four hundred, and from Phlius two hundred, and eighty of the Mycenaeans.
οὗτοι μὲν ἀπὸ Πελοποννήσου παρῆσαν, ἀπὸ δὲ Βοιωτῶν Θεσπιέων τε ἑπτακόσιοι καὶ Θηβαίων τετρακόσιοι.
These came from the Peloponnese, and from the Boeotians seven hundred of the Thespians and four hundred of the Thebans.

Notes

  1. §7.202.1οἵδε Ἑλλήνων οἱ ὑπομένοντες τὸν Πέρσην — The pronoun οἵδε is a demonstrative (nominative masculine plural) pointing forward to the following list, serving as the subject of the main verb ἦσαν. The phrase οἱ ὑπομένοντες is a substantivized participle (nominative masculine plural), qualified by the partitive genitive Ἑλλήνων. The whole clause means 'the Greeks who were awaiting the Persian were these:'
  2. §7.202.1ἡμίσεες ἑκατέρων — An appositive phrase consisting of the substantivized adjective ἡμίσεες (nominative masculine plural, meaning 'halves') and the genitive ἑκατέρων ('of each of the two'). It specifies that the preceding 'thousand of the Tegeans and Mantineans' consisted of 500 men from each of the two states.

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