Herodotus' HISTORY BOOK 8 (URANIA) Complete

Translated by G. Macaulay.

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77. They then were making their preparations thus in the night without having taken any sleep at all: and with regard to oracles, I am not able to make objections against them that they are not true, for I do not desire to attempt to overthrow the credit of them when they speak clearly, looking at such matters as these which here follow:

"But when with ships they shall join the sacred strand of the goddess, Artemis golden-sword-girded, and thee, wave-washed Kynosura, Urged by a maddening hope, [44] having given rich Athens to plunder, Then shall Justice divine quell Riot, of Insolence first-born, [45] Longing to overthrow all things [46] and terribly panting for bloodhshed: Brass shall encounter with brass, and Ares the sea shall empurple, Tinging its waves with the blood: then a day of freedom for Hellas Cometh from wide-seeing Zeus [47] and from Victory, lady and mother." [48]

Looking to such things as this, and when Bakis speaks so clearly, I do not venture myself to make any objections about oracles, nor can I admit them from others.

44. {elpidi mainomene}, "with a mad hope."

45. {krateron Koron Ubrios uion}.

46. {dokeunt ana panta tithesthai}: the MSS. have also {pithesthai}. Possibly {tithesthai} might stand, though {anatithesthai} is not found elsewhere in this sense. Stein adopts in his last edition the conjecture {piesthai}, "swallow up."

47. {Kronides}.

48. {potnia Nike}.

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