αὐτὸν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 αὐτὸν

   au-TON

   him
2. sentence🔊 σὺ οὖν μὴ πεισθῇς αὐτοῖς ἐνεδρεύουσιν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες πλείους τεσσεράκοντα οἵτινες ἀνεθεμάτισαν ἑαυτοὺς μήτε φαγεῖν μήτε πιεῖν ἕως οὗ ἀνέλωσιν αὐτόν καὶ νῦν εἰσιν ἕτοιμοι προσδεχόμενοι τὴν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἐπαγγελίαν

   sy oun MÊ peis-THÊS au-TOIS e-ne-DREU-ou-sin gar au-TON eks au-TÔN AN-dres PLEI-ous te-se-RA-kon-ta HOI-ti-nes a-ne-the-MA-ti-san he-au-TOUS MÊ-te pha-GEIN MÊ-te pi-EIN HE-ōs hou a-NE-lō-sin au-TON kai NYN EI-sin HE-toi-moi pros-de-KHO-me-noi tên a-PO sou e-paŋ-ge-LI-an

   you therefore not be persuaded by them are lying in wait for him from of them men more forty who bound under an oath themselves neither to eat nor to drink until when they kill him and now they are ready waiting for the from your promise

Exegesis

The main reason is given by the clause enedreuousin gar auton ex autōn andres pleious tessarakonta {ἐνεδρεύουσιν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες πλείους τεσσεράκοντα | enedreúousin gàr autòn ex autôn ándres pleíous tesserákonta}, in which the present active indicative enedreuousin depicts an ongoing ambush. The phrase ex autōn ándres pleious tessarakonta structurally places “from among them” before “men more than forty,” emphasizing that the conspirators arise from within the same group.

The temporal clause heōs hou anelōsin auton {ἕως οὗ ἀνέλωσιν αὐτόν | héōs hoû anélōsin autón} uses heōs hou with the aorist subjunctive to indicate a future-contingent limit: the oath holds “until the time when” they succeed in killing him.