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Herodotus · Histories §9.75.1

Later Feat of Sophanes and His Death at Datos

Passage 1530 of 1577 · Greek

Summary

This section records Sophanes' victory over the Argive pentathlete Eurybates during the siege of Aegina, and his subsequent death in battle against the Edonians at Datos.

§9.75.1ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἕτερον Σωφάνεϊ λαμπρὸν ἔργον ἐξεργασμένον, ὅτι περικατημένων Ἀθηναίων Αἴγιναν Εὐρυβάτην τὸν Ἀργεῖον ἄνδρα πεντάεθλον ἐκ προκλήσιος ἐφόνευσε.
There is also another glorious deed achieved by Sophanes, namely that when the Athenians were besieging Aegina, he slew Eurybates the Argive, a man who was a pentathlete, in single combat upon a challenge.
αὐτὸν δὲ Σωφάνεα χρόνῳ ὕστερον τούτων κατέλαβε ἄνδρα γενόμενον ἀγαθόν, Ἀθηναίων στρατηγέοντα ἅμα Λεάγρῳ τῷ Γλαύκωνος, ἀποθανεῖν ὑπὸ Ἠδωνῶν ἐν Δάτῳ περὶ τῶν μετάλλων τῶν χρυσέων μαχόμενον.
But as for Sophanes himself, some time after these events, it befell him, after having proved himself a brave man, while commanding the Athenians as general along with Leagros the son of Glaukon, to meet his death at the hands of the Edonians in Datos, fighting for the gold mines.

Notes

  1. 9.75.1Σωφάνεϊ — Functions as the dative of agent with the perfect passive participle ἐξεργασμένον.
  2. 9.75.1κατέλαβε — Used impersonally (or as a verb of happening) with the accusative αὐτὸν δὲ Σωφάνεα (acting as the subject of the infinitive) and the infinitive ἀποθανεῖν, meaning 'it befell someone to die'.

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