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Headword:
*turtai=os
Adler number: tau,1206
Translated headword: Tyrtaios, Tyrtaeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Note] that the Lacedaemonians swore either to capture Messene or to die in the attempt. But when the god gave an oracle that they should obtain a general from [the] Athenians, they took
Tyrtaeus the poet, a lame man; by exhorting them to courage he captured Messene in the 20th year [sc. of the revolt]; and they razed the city and added the captives to the Helots.[1]
*turtai=os: o(/ti oi( *lakedaimo/nioi w)/mosan h)\ *messh/nhn ai(rh/sein h)\ au)toi\ teqnh/cesqai. xrh/santos de\ tou= qeou= strathgo\n para\ *)aqhnai/wn labei=n, lamba/nousi *turtai=on to\n poihth/n, xwlo\n a)/ndra: o(\s e)p' a)reth\n au)tou\s parakalw=n ei(=le tw=| k# e)/tei th\n *messh/nhn: kai\ tau/thn kate/skayan kai\ tou\s ai)xmalw/tous e)n toi=s *ei(/lwsi kate/tacan.
Notes:
For
Tyrtaios see already
tau 1205. The present entry, as Adler notes, shows some similarities with the
scholia to
Plato,
Laws 1.629A (where mention is made of 'T., an Athenian by birth who became a citizen of
Sparta').
[1] For the Helots see generally
epsiloniota 132,
epsiloniota 133,
epsiloniota 134,
epsiloniota 135. The present material, amidst plenty of nonsense about
Tyrtaios himself (e.g. not an Athenian, and not a general but a martial poet), concerns a helot revolt, of the mid-seventh century BCE, so serious as to earn the name of Second Messenian War.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 January 2002@13:18:18.
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