Question 1

Ξέρξης δὲ ἐπεὶ ἡλίου ἀνατείλαντος σπονδὰς ἐποιήσατο, ἐπισχὼν χρόνον ἐς ἀγορῆς κου μάλιστα πληθώρην πρόσοδον ἐποιέετο·

Accepted Answer

But when the sun rose, Xerxes made libations, waited for a while until perhaps about the time when the marketplace is full, and then he began his attack.

Question 2

καὶ γὰρ ἐπέσταλτο ἐξ Ἐπιάλτεω οὕτω· ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ ὄρεος ἡ κατάβασις συντομωτέρη τέ ἐστι καὶ βραχύτερος ὁ χῶρος πολλὸν ἤ περ ἡ περίοδός τε καὶ ἀνάβασις.

Accepted Answer

For he has also been advised in this way by Epialtes. For the descent from the mountain is more direct and the way is much shorter than the circuit and ascent.

Question 3

οἵ τε δὴ βάρβαροι οἱ ἀμφὶ Ξέρξην προσήισαν καὶ οἱ ἀμφὶ Λεωνίδην Ἕλληνες, ὡς τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἔξοδον ποιεύμενοι, ἤδη πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἢ κατ᾽ ἀρχὰς ἐπεξήισαν ἐς τὸ εὐρύτερον τοῦ αὐχένος.

Accepted Answer

The foreigners with Xerxes were attacking, and the Greeks with Leonidas. because they were making their way out to their deaths, now went out much further than before into the wider part of the pass.

Question 4

τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἔρυμα τοῦ τείχεος ἐφυλάσσετο ἀνὰ τὰς προτέρας ἡμέρας, οἱ δὲ ὑπεξιόντες ἐς τὰ στεινόπορα ἐμάχοντο.

Accepted Answer

For the fortification of the wall was being guarded throughout the previous days, but they withdrew into the narrow parts of the pass and were fighting there.

Question 5

τότε δὲ συμμισγόντων ἔξω τῶν στεινῶν ἔπιπτον πλήθεϊ πολλοὶ τῶν βαρβάρων· ὄπισθε γὰρ οἱ ἡγεμόνες τῶν τελέων ἔχοντες μάστιγας ἐρράπιζον πάντα ἄνδρα, αἰεὶ ἐς τὸ πρόσω ἐποτρύνοντες.

Accepted Answer

But then they joined in battle outside the narrow parts of the pass and many in number of the barbarians fell; for the captains were behind their squadrons holding whips and were thrashing all the men, always urging them forwards.

Question 6

πολλοὶ μὲν δὴ ἐσέπιπτον αὐτῶν ἐς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ διεφθείροντο, πολλῷ δ᾽ ἔτι πλεῦνες κατεπατέοντο ζωοὶ ὑπ᾽ ἀλλήλων· ἦν δὲ λόγος οὐδεὶς τοῦ ἀπολλυμένου.

Accepted Answer

Many of them were falling into the sea and were being destroyed but still many more were trampled alive by each other. And no regard was paid to those who perished.

Question 7

ἅτε γὰρ ἐπιστάμενοι Λακεδαιμόνιοι τὸν μέλλοντα σφίσι ἔσεσθαι θάνατον ἐκ τῶν περιιόντων τὸ ὄρος,

Accepted Answer

For because the Spartans knew that they were going to die by the hands of the men who had gone around the mountain,

Question 8

ἀπεδείκνυντο ῥώμης ὅσον εἶχον μέγιστον ἐς τοὺς βαρβάρους, παραχρεώμενοί τε καὶ ἀτέοντες.

Accepted Answer

They made a display of the full extent of the strength which they had against the barbarians, fighting in a frenzy without regard for life.

A-Level Greek

Histories Book 7: 223

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