Χαίρετε!
With Mastronarde, I am still having a lot of trouble with indirect discourse, because some elements can come before the “so that” in Greek.
My troubles are with the first sentence of a passage I am having a lot of difficulty with. Don’t worry about the rest of the sentences. The passage reads,
“ὁ μὲν Σωκλῆς οὐ δίκαιον ἡγεῖσθαι ἔφη τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους βασιλείας καθιστάναι εἰς τὰς πόλεις, οἱ δ’ ἄλλοι πάντες πρῶτον μὲν εἶχον ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ ἑαυτούς, ἔπειτα δ’ ἅπας τις αὐτῶν φωνὴν ἔρρηξε [“let loose his voice”: i.e., “broke into speech”] καὶ ᾑρεῖτο τὴν ἐκείνου γνώμην. καὶ οὕτως ἐκέλευον οἱ σύμμαχοι τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους μηδὲν ποιεῖν δεινὸν περὶ πόλιν Ἑλληνικήν [“Hellenic” or “Greek”].”
In the first sentence, I have two signs of indirect discourse: ἡγεῖσθαι and ἔφη. I am not sure to translate them as:
- Socles believed that the Laconians said that. . .
- Socles said that he did not believe that . . .
How do I know which verb to begin with? I know the subject is Socles. I guess οὐ δίκαιον goes with ἡγεῖσθαι, but I am not positive.