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Herodotus · Histories §8.72.1

Peloponnesian Cities Defending the Isthmus

Passage 1380 of 1577 · Greek

Summary

The author lists the Peloponnesian states that sent forces to defend the Isthmus, noting the indifference of the other states, and mentions that the Olympic and Carnean festivals were already over.

§8.72.1οἱ δὲ βοηθήσαντες ἐς τὸν Ἰσθμὸν πανδημεὶ οἵδε ἦσαν Ἑλλήνων, Λακεδαιμόνιοί τε καὶ Ἀρκάδες πάντες καὶ Ἠλεῖοι καὶ Κορίνθιοι καὶ Ἐπιδαύριοι καὶ Φλιάσιοι καὶ Τροιζήνιοι καὶ Ἑρμιονέες.
These were the Greeks who went to the help of the Isthmus in full force: the Lacedaemonians, all the Arcadians, the Eleans, the Corinthians, the Epidaurians, the Phliasians, the Troezenians, and the Hermionians.
οὗτοι μὲν ἦσαν οἱ βοηθήσαντες καὶ ὑπεραρρωδέοντες τῇ Ἑλλάδι κινδυνευούσῃ· τοῖσι δὲ ἄλλοισι Πελοποννησίοισι ἔμελε οὐδέν.
These were the ones who went to help and were deeply anxious for Greece in her danger; but the other Peloponnesians cared nothing.
Ὀλύμπια δὲ καὶ Κάρνεια παροιχώκεε ἤδη.
And the Olympic and Carnean festivals were now already past.

Notes

  1. §8.72.1Ἑλλήνων — Partitive genitive, depending on the preceding noun phrase "those who came to the rescue..." (οἱ δὲ βοηθήσαντες...). It means "Of the Greeks, these were the ones who...".
  2. §8.72.1ὑπεραρρωδέοντες — Present participle of ὑπεραρρωδέω (to be deeply anxious), grouped together with the preceding βοηθήσαντες under the single article οἱ ("those who came to help and were deeply anxious"). It governs the dative τῇ Ἑλλάδι.
  3. §8.72.1ἔμελε — Imperfect of the impersonal verb μέλει (to be a care to). It takes the dative of person concerned (τοῖσι δὲ ἄλλοισι Πελοποννησίοισι) and the adverbial accusative οὐδέν (nothing/at all), meaning 'to the other Peloponnesians it was of no concern at all.'

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Herodotus, Histories §8.72.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:8.72.1

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