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| Passage | Sentence | Bucket | Confidence | Greek | English | Rationale |
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| 4.15.1 | 1 | historical | high | ὡς δὲ τά τε ἄλλα ἐς τὸν πόλεμον ἕτοιμα ἦν αὐτοῖς καὶ τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν συμμάχων προθυμότερα ἢ προσεδόκων---καὶ γὰρ Ἀργείοις ἤδη καὶ Ἀρκάσι λαμπρῶς τὸ ἐς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἔχθος ἐξῆπτο---οὕτως ἀπέστησαν ἔτει τριακοστῷ μὲν καὶ ἐνάτῳ μετὰ Ἰθώμης ἅλωσιν, τετάρτῳ δὲ τῆς τρίτης Ὀλυμπιάδος καὶ εἰκοστῆς, ἣν Ἴκαρος Ὑπερησιεὺς ἐνίκα στάδιον· | When other matters necessary for war were prepared by them, and when the support from their allies proved more eager than they had expected—for the hostility against the Lacedaemonians among both the Argives and the Arcadians had already brilliantly flared up—they revolted in the thirty-ninth year after the capture of Ithome, in the fourth year of the twenty-third Olympiad, in which Icarus of Hyperesia won the stadion race. | Gives a dated revolt in relation to Ithome and an Olympiad, i.e. a post-500 BC historical event. |
| 4.15.1 | 2 | historical | high | Ἀθήνῃσι δὲ οἱ κατʼ ἐνιαυτὸν ἦσαν ἤδη τότε ἄρχοντες, καὶ Ἀθηναίοις Τλησίας ἦρχεν. | At Athens, annual archons had already been established by then, and Tlesias held office among the Athenians. | Refers to the establishment of annual archons and named Athenian officeholding, a historical civic detail. |
| 4.15.2 | 1 | historical | high | ἐν δὲ Λακεδαίμονι οἵ τινες τηνικαῦτα ἔτυχον βασιλεύοντες, Τυρταῖος μὲν τὰ ὀνόματα οὐκ ἔγραψε, Ῥιανὸς δʼ ἐποίησεν ἐν τοῖς ἔπεσι Λεωτυχίδην βασιλέα ἐπὶ τοῦδε εἶναι τοῦ πολέμου. | Now, in Lacedaemon, who precisely were kings at that time Tyrtaeus has not recorded; but Rhianus writes in his poetry that Leotychides was king during this war. | Refers to a war and the identity of a Spartan king at the time, which is historical rather than mythic or merely descriptive. |
| 4.15.2 | 2 | other | high | Ῥιανῷ μὲν οὖν ἔγωγε οὐδαμῶς κατά γε τοῦτο συνθήσομαι· | In this particular I certainly will not agree with Rhianus at all. | Personal disagreement with Rhianus; no mythic or historical event. |
| 4.15.2 | 3 | other | high | Τυρταῖον δὲ καὶ οὐ λέγοντα ὅμως εἰρηκέναι τις ἂν ἐν τῷδε ἡγοῖτο. | But although Tyrtaeus himself does not name a ruler explicitly, one might yet conclude that he has spoken indirectly about it. | A literary comment about Tyrtaeus and indirect reference, with no mythic or historical event described. |
| 4.15.2 | 4 | historical | low | ἐλεγεῖα γὰρ ἐς τὸν πρότερόν ἐστιν αὐτῷ πόλεμον· | His elegies, indeed, refer to an earlier war, saying: | Refers to an earlier war, which is a historical event rather than mythic or descriptive. |
| 4.15.2 | 5 | historical | high | ἀμφʼ αὐτῇ δʼ ἐμάχοντʼ ἐννέα καὶ δέκʼ ἔτη νωλεμέως, αἰεὶ ταλασίφρονα θυμὸν ἔχοντες, αἰχμηταὶ πατέρων ἡμετέρων πατέρες. | "For nineteen years continuously fought they around it, Ever unyielding in courage, our fathers, warriors with spear, fathers of our fathers." | Refers to a nineteen-year conflict by the ancestors of the speaker, a historical war event rather than myth. |
| 4.15.3 | 1 | historical | low | δῆλα οὖν ἐστιν ὡς ὕστερον τρίτῃ γενεᾷ τὸν πόλεμον οἱ Μεσσήνιοι τόνδε ἐπολέμησαν. | It is therefore clear that the Messenians fought this war later, in the third generation afterward. | Refers to a later war in a genealogical/historical framework, not a mythic event. |
| 4.15.3 | 2 | historical | high | ἀποδείκνυσί τε τοῦ χρόνου τὸ συνεχὲς βασιλεύοντας τηνικαῦτα ἐν Σπάρτῃ Ἀνάξανδρον Εὐρυκράτους τοῦ Πολυδώρου, τῆς δὲ οἰκίας τῆς ἑτέρας Ἀναξίδαμον Ζευξιδάμου τοῦ Ἀρχιδάμου τοῦ Θεοπόμπου. | The continuous sequence of time is demonstrated by the reign at that time in Sparta of Anaxander, son of Eurycrates, son of Polydorus, and from the other royal house Anaxidamus, son of Zeuxidamus, son of Archidamus, son of Theopompus. | Lists Spartan kings and dynastic succession, a historical/chronological reference rather than myth. |
| 4.15.3 | 3 | historical | high | κατέβην δὲ ἐς ἀπόγονον Θεοπόμπου τέταρτον, ὅτι Ἀρχίδαμος ὁ Θεοπόμπου προαπέθανε τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ ἐς Ζευξίδαμον υἱιδοῦν ὄντα ἡ Θεοπόμπου περιῆλθεν ἀρχή. | I have descended to the fourth descendant from Theopompus, because Archidamus, the son of Theopompus, died before his father, and thus the kingship passed to Zeuxidamus, the grandson of Theopompus. | Genealogical and succession notice about Spartan kings after Theopompus; this is historical dynastic material, not mythic. |
| 4.15.3 | 4 | historical | high | Λεωτυχίδης δὲ μετὰ Δημάρατον βασιλεύσας φαίνεται τὸν Ἀρίστωνος· Θεοπόμπου δὲ Ἀρίστων ἀπόγονος ἕβδομος. | Leotychides is found reigning after Demaratus, the son of Ariston, and Ariston was the seventh descendant from Theopompus. | Lists Spartan kings and genealogy; this is historical dynastic succession rather than myth. |
| 4.15.4 | 1 | historical | high | τότε δὲ οἱ Μεσσήνιοι Λακεδαιμονίοις συμβάλλουσιν ἐν Δέραις καλουμέναις τῆς σφετέρας, ἔτει πρώτῳ μετὰ τὴν ἀπόστασιν· | Then the Messenians fought the Lacedaemonians at a place in their own territory called Derae, in the first year after their revolt. | Describes a battle after the Messenians' revolt, a post-500 BC historical event. |
| 4.15.4 | 2 | historical | high | ἀπῆσαν δὲ ἀμφοτέροις οἱ σύμμαχοι. | Both sides were without their allies. | Describes the absence of allies in a conflict, which is a historical military circumstance. |
| 4.15.4 | 3 | mythic | high | καὶ νίκη μὲν ἐγένετο οὐδετέρων σαφής, Ἀριστομένην δὲ ἔργα φασὶν ἀποδείξασθαι πλέον τι ἢ ἄνδρα ἕνα εἰκὸς ἦν, ὥστε καὶ βασιλέα μετὰ τὴν μάχην ᾑροῦντο αὐτόν, ἦν γὰρ καὶ γένους τῶν Αἰπυτιδῶν· | The victory was clearly gained by neither army, but Aristomenes was said to have performed deeds surpassing those of one man so greatly that after the battle they elected him king, as indeed he belonged to the family of the Aepytidae. | Aristomenes is a legendary heroic figure, and the sentence describes his extraordinary deeds and election as king in a mythic context. |
| 4.15.5 | 1 | historical | high | παραιτουμένου τε, οὕτω στρατηγὸν αὐτοκράτορα εἵλοντο. | Even though he declined, nonetheless they chose him as sole general. | Describes a political/military appointment of a general, a historical event rather than myth or geography. |
| 4.15.5 | 2 | historical | high | Ἀριστομένει δὲ παρίστατο μηδʼ ἂν ἄλλον ἀπαξιῶσαι παθεῖν τι ἐν πολέμῳ δράσαντα ἄξια μνήμης· αὑτῷ μέντοι καὶ πρὸ παντὸς ἐνόμιζεν εἶναι, ἔτι ἀρχομένου τοῦ πολέμου Λακεδαιμονίους καταπλήξαντα φαίνεσθαι καὶ ἐς τὰ μέλλοντά σφισι φοβερώτερον. | Aristomenes himself believed that he would not begrudge another who had done something noteworthy in war achieving distinction; yet as for himself, he considered it altogether vital from the very beginning of the war to strike terror into the Lacedaemonians and to appear more formidable still regarding the events to come. | Refers to Aristomenes and the beginning of a war against Sparta, a post-mythic historical-war context. |
| 4.15.5 | 3 | historical | medium | ἅτε δὲ οὕτως ἔχων, ἀφικόμενος νύκτωρ ἐς τὴν Λακεδαίμονα ἀνατίθησιν ἀσπίδα πρὸς τὸν τῆς Χαλκιοίκου ναόν· ἐπεγέγραπτο δὲ Ἀριστομένην ἀπὸ Σπαρτιατῶν διδόναι τῇ θεῷ. | Because he held this belief, he arrived one night into Lacedaemon and dedicated a shield in the temple of Athena Chalkioikos; inscribed upon it was that Aristomenes offered it to the goddess as a gift taken from the Spartans. | A dedication in Sparta tied to Aristomenes and the Spartans reflects a post-mythic historical-legendary event affecting a sanctuary, not a purely mythic landscape feature. |
| 4.15.6 | 1 | other | high | ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ Λακεδαιμονίοις μάντευμα ἐκ Δελφῶν τὸν Ἀθηναῖον ἐπάγεσθαι σύμβουλον. | There came also to the Lacedaemonians an oracle from Delphi, instructing them to take an Athenian as adviser. | An oracle/instruction from Delphi is an antiquarian religious detail, not a mythic event or a historical event after 500 BC. |
| 4.15.6 | 2 | mythic | high | ἀποστέλλουσιν οὖν παρὰ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους τόν τε χρησμὸν ἀπαγγελοῦντας καὶ ἄνδρα αἰτοῦντας παραινέσοντα ἃ χρή σφισιν. | They therefore sent envoys to Athens, to announce the oracle and request a man who would counsel them as to what they should do. | Refers to an oracle and an ensuing consultation tied to mythic/religious action. |
| 4.15.6 | 3 | historical | high | Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ οὐδέτερα θέλοντες, οὔτε Λακεδαιμονίους ἄνευ μεγάλων κινδύνων προσλαβεῖν μοῖραν τῶν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ τὴν ἀρίστην οὔτε αὐτοὶ παρακοῦσαι τοῦ θεοῦ, πρὸς ταῦτα ἐξευρίσκουσι· | But the Athenians, unwilling either that the Lacedaemonians without great trouble should easily acquire the finest portion of the Peloponnese or themselves openly disobey the god, devised the following plan. | Refers to the Athenians' political decision and action in a historical context, not mythic material. |
| 4.15.6 | 4 | historical | high | καὶ ἦν γὰρ Τυρταῖος διδάσκαλος γραμμάτων νοῦν τε ἥκιστα ἔχειν δοκῶν καὶ τὸν ἕτερον τῶν ποδῶν χωλός, τοῦτον ἀποστέλλουσιν ἐς Σπάρτην. | There was at that time among them a teacher of letters named Tyrtaeus, who appeared to have little intelligence and was lame in one foot; this man they dispatched to Sparta. | Tyrtaeus is a historical figure associated with Sparta, and the sentence concerns his dispatch there, an event in historical time. |
| 4.15.6 | 5 | historical | high | ὁ δὲ ἀφικόμενος ἰδίᾳ τε τοῖς ἐν τέλει καὶ συνάγων ὁπόσους τύχοι καὶ τὰ ἐλεγεῖα καὶ τὰ ἔπη σφίσι τὰ ἀνάπαιστα ᾖδεν. | When Tyrtaeus arrived, he recited privately to the leaders and publicly, to whoever happened to gather around, his elegiac verses and his anapaestic poems. | Tyrtaeus is a historical figure of the Spartan period, and the sentence concerns his arrival and poetic recitation. |
| 4.15.7 | 1 | historical | medium | ἐνιαυτῷ δὲ ὕστερον τοῦ περὶ τὰς Δέρας ἀγῶνος, ἡκόντων ἀμφοτέροις καὶ τῶν συμμάχων, παρεσκευάζοντο ὡς μάχην συνάψοντες ἐπὶ τῷ καλουμένῳ Κάπρου σήματι. | A year after the battle about the Boar's Tomb, allies arriving to support both sides, they prepared to engage in battle near the place called the Grave of Kapros. | Describes a battle and military preparations, an event in the historical/legendary-historical register rather than mythic landscape. |
| 4.15.7 | 2 | historical | high | Μεσσηνίοις μὲν οὖν Ἠλεῖοι καὶ Ἀρκάδες, ἔτι δὲ ἐξ Ἄργους ἀφίκετο καὶ Σικυῶνος βοήθεια. | The Messenians had assistance from the Eleans and Arcadians, and further aid came also from Argos and Sicyon. | Refers to named Greek states providing military aid, a post-archaic political/military event rather than myth or mere description. |
| 4.15.7 | 3 | other | high | παρῆσαν δὲ καὶ ὅσοι πρότερον τῶν Μεσσηνίων ἔφευγον ἑκουσίως, ἐξ Ἐλευσῖνός τε, οἷς πάτριον δρᾶν τὰ ὄργια τῶν Μεγάλων θεῶν, καὶ οἱ Ἀνδροκλέους ἀπόγονοι· | Present, too, were those Messenians who had previously fled their homeland voluntarily, coming both from Eleusis—where they were accustomed ancestrally to perform the rites of the Great Goddesses—and likewise the descendants of Androcles. | Genealogical and cultic identification of present Messenians; descriptive/antiquarian rather than mythic or historical event. |
| 4.15.7 | 4 | other | high | καὶ γὰρ οἱ συσπεύσαντες μάλιστά σφισιν ἦσαν οὗτοι. | For these above all had readily moved to their aid. | A general statement about who came readily to aid; no mythic or historical event. |
| 4.15.8 | 1 | historical | high | Λακεδαιμονίοις δὲ ἦλθον Κορίνθιοι συμμαχήσοντες καὶ Λεπρεατῶν τινες κατὰ ἔχθος τὸ Ἠλείων· | The Corinthians came to help the Spartans, as did certain Lepreans, because of their hostility toward the Eleans. | Mentions Corinthians and Lepreans coming to aid the Spartans in a conflict, which is a post-500 BC historical event. |
| 4.15.8 | 2 | historical | high | Ἀσιναίοις δὲ ὅρκοι πρὸς ἀμφοτέρους ἦσαν. | The Asinaeans, however, had sworn oaths to both sides. | Refers to the Asinaeans and their oaths in a historical conflict, not mythic material. |
| 4.15.8 | 3 | mythic | high | τὸ δὲ χωρίον τοῦτο, Κάπρου σῆμα, ἔστι μὲν ἐν Στενυκλήρῳ τῆς Μεσσηνίας, Ἡρακλέα δὲ αὐτόθι ὅρκον ἐπὶ τομίων κάπρου τοῖς Νηλέως παισὶ δοῦναι καὶ λαβεῖν παρὰ ἐκείνων λέγουσιν. | This particular place, called "Tomb of the Boar," is situated in Stenykleros in Messenia; they say that here Heracles gave and received an oath with the sons of Neleus upon pieces of a sacrificed boar. | Mentions Heracles and a sworn pact with Neleus' sons, a mythic event affecting the place-name. |