Ἐπὶ Λειψυδρίῳ μάχη
a battle at Leipsydrion
Translated by David Whitehead14 Nov 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[sc. Leipsydrion is] a place above [Mount] Parnes,1 which was fortified by those in exile from the tyrants, led by the Alkmaionids.2 They were captured by Peisistratos3 after a siege, and a drinking-song was sung about them: "woe woe Leipsydion betrayer-of-comrades, what men you have slain, good in battle and nobly born, when they showed what fathers they had".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐπὶ Λειψυδρίῳ μάχη· χωρίον ὑπὲρ τῆς Πάρνηθος, ὃ ἐτείχισαν οἱ φυγάδες τῶν τυράννων, ὧν οἱ Ἀλκμαιονίδαι προεστήκεσαν. ἐκπολιορκηθέντων δ' αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τῶν περὶ Πεισίστρατον, σκολιὸν εἰς αὐτοὺς ᾔδετο· αἲ αἲ Λειψύδριον προδωσέταιρον, οἵους ἄνδρας ἀπώλε- σας, μάχεσθαι δ' ἀγαθούς γε καὶ εὐπατρίδας, ὁπότ' ἔδειξαν, οἵων πατέρων ἔσαν.
Betacode
*)epi\ *leiyudri/w| ma/xh: xwri/on u(pe\r th=s *pa/rnhqos, o(\ e)tei/xisan oi( fuga/des tw=n tura/nnwn, w(=n oi( *)alkmaioni/dai proesth/kesan. e)kpoliorkhqe/ntwn d' au)tw=n u(po\ tw=n peri\ *peisi/straton, skolio\n ei)s au)tou\s h)/|deto: ai)\ ai)\ *leiyu/drion prodwse/tairon, oi(/ous a)/ndras a)pw/le- sas, ma/xesqai d' a)gaqou/s ge kai\ eu)patri/das, o(po/t' e)/deican, oi(/wn pate/rwn e)/san.
Notes (3)
- The headword phrase, although not described as such here, was proverbial: see Apostolius 7.70, where it is glossed as 'in reference to those involved in a brave struggle'.
For the rest of the present material cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.695E (15.50 Kaibel). - 1In Attica: pi 680, pi 681. ↩
- 2In the late sixth century BCE. For the Alkmaionids see generally alpha 1292. ↩
- 3pi 1474. ↩
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