Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
book:
chapter:
chapter 1chapter 2chapter 3chapter 4chapter 5chapter 6chapter 7chapter 8chapter 9chapter 10chapter 11chapter 12chapter 13chapter 14chapter 15chapter 16chapter 17chapter 18chapter 19chapter 20chapter 21chapter 22chapter 23chapter 24chapter 25chapter 26chapter 27chapter 28chapter 29chapter 30chapter 31chapter 32chapter 33chapter 34chapter 35chapter 36chapter 37chapter 38chapter 39chapter 40chapter 41chapter 42chapter 43chapter 44chapter 45chapter 46chapter 47chapter 48chapter 49chapter 50chapter 51chapter 52chapter 53chapter 54chapter 55chapter 56chapter 57chapter 58chapter 59chapter 60chapter 61chapter 62chapter 63chapter 64chapter 65chapter 66chapter 67chapter 68chapter 69chapter 70chapter 71chapter 72chapter 73chapter 74chapter 75chapter 76chapter 77
This text is part of:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
ἐπαινεθεὶς δ᾽ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ καὶ λαβὼν οἰωνοὺς αἰσίους τῆς πράξεως διαβαίνει τὸν ποταμόν. καὶ παραγενόμενος ἐπὶ τὸν χάρακα τῶν Τυρρηνῶν εἰσέρχεται, παρακρουσάμενος τοὺς φυλάττοντας τὰς πύλας ὡς τῶν ὁμοεθνῶν τις, ὅπλον τ᾽ οὐθὲν φανερὸν ἔχων καὶ γλώττῃ Τυρρηνικῇ διαλεγόμενος, ἣν ἐξέμαθεν ἔτι παῖς ὢν ὑπὸ τροφοῦ Τυρρηνίδος τὸ [2] γένος ἐκδιδαχθείς. ὡς δ᾽ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀγορὰν καὶ τὸ στρατήγιον ἀφίκετο, ἄνδρα ὁρᾷ μεγέθει τε καὶ ῥώμῃ σώματος διαφέροντα, ἐσθῆτα πορφυρᾶν ἐνδεδυκότα, καθήμενον ἐπὶ τοῦ στρατηγικοῦ βήματος, καὶ περὶ αὐτὸν ἑστῶτας ἐνόπλους συχνούς. διαμαρτὼν δὲ τῆς δόξης, [p. 179] οἷα δὴ μηδέποτε τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Τυρρηνῶν θεασάμενος, τοῦτον τὸν ἄνδρα ὑπέλαβε Πορσίναν εἶναι: ὁ δ᾽ ἦν ἄρα γραμματεὺς τοῦ βασιλέως, ἐκάθητο δ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος διαριθμῶν τοὺς στρατιώτας καὶ διαγράφων αὐτοῖς τοὺς ὀψωνιασμούς. [3] ἐπὶ τοῦτον δὴ τὸν γραμματέα χωρήσας διὰ τοῦ περιεστηκότος ὄχλου καὶ ἀναβὰς ὡς ἄνοπλος ὑπ᾽ οὐθενὸς κωλυόμενος ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα, σπᾶται τὸ ξιφίδιον, ὃ τῆς περιβολῆς ἐντὸς ἔκρυπτε, καὶ παίει τὸν ἄνδρα κατὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς. ἀποθανόντος δὲ τοῦ γραμματέως πληγῇ μιᾷ, συλληφθεὶς εὐθὺς ὑπὸ τῶν περὶ τὸ βῆμα πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα πεπυσμένον ἤδη τὴν τοῦ γραμματέως ἀναίρεσιν ἀπάγεται. [4] ὁ δ᾽ ὡς εἶδεν αὐτόν, Ὦ μιαρώτατε πάντων, εἶπεν, ἀνθρώπων, καὶ δίκας ὑφέξων οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν ὧν ἄξιος εἶ, λέγε, τίς εἶ καὶ πόθεν ἀφιγμένος καὶ τίνι βοηθείᾳ πεποιθὼς ἐπεχείρησας ἔργῳ τηλικῷδε: καὶ πότερον τὸν γραμματέα τὸν ἐμὸν ἀποκτεῖναί σοι προὔκειτο μόνον ἢ κἀμέ: καὶ τίνας ἔχεις κοινωνοὺς τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς ἢ συνίστορας; ἀποκρύψῃ δὲ μηδὲν τῶν ἀληθῶν, ἵνα μὴ βασανιζόμενος ἀναγκασθῇς λέγειν.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
Google Digital Humanities Awards Program provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
show
Browse Bar
hide
References (4 total)
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
(4):
- LSJ, διαγρα?́φ-ω
- LSJ, ἔνοπλ-ος
- LSJ, στρα^τήγ-ιον
- LSJ, στρα^τηγ-ικός
load
Vocabulary Tool
hide
Search
hide
Display Preferences