Ἡ βιογραφία τοῦ στρατηγοῦ Γεωργίου Καραϊσκάκη
Δημήτριος Αινιάν, 1833
A comrade-in-arms writes up the brilliant, impossible, barefoot general of the Greek Revolution — from the man who followed him, took his notes, and got wounded beside him.
Δημήτριος Αινιάν
1800–1881
Ainian fought beside Karaiskakis at Dombraina in 1826 and served as his secretary; he kept notes for the biography from that time on, though the house and family library burned in 1847.
Feels like war, awe and memory.
What it costs to be the one who never spares himself, and asks the same of others.
«Ἄτρομος πάντοτε εἰς τοὺς πολέμους, ἀτρομώτερος πολὺ ἐφάνη καθ’ ὃ διάστημα ἦτον ἀρχηγὸς τῶν κατὰ τὴν Στερεὰν Ἑλλάδα στρατευμάτων· τότε εἶχε ψωμὶ καὶ αὐτός, ὅταν εἶχαν καὶ οἱ ἀγαπητοί τοῦ Ἕλληνες· ἡ κλίνη του ἦτον κλίνη ἁπλοῦ στρατιώτου· πρωταγωνιστὴς ἐπαρουσιάζετο, καὶ τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ ἀγῶνος ὅλην τὴν ἀπέδιδεν εἰς ἄλλους· ἐνθουσιασμένος διὰ τὴν παληκαριάν, ὡς παληκάρι καὶ ὁ ἴδιος, τὴν ἐτιμοῦσεν ὅπου τὴν ἔβλεπε καὶ τὴν ἀντάμειβε πλουσιοπάροχα· τοὺς γνωστοὺς διὰ τὴν ἀνδρείαν τοὺς ἔκραζε κατ’ ὄνομα, ὅταν ἐξεσπάθωνεν ἐν καιρῷ μάχης, διὰ νὰ τὸν ἀκολουθήσουν· ἔβγανε τὰ πιστόλια του ἀπὸ τὴν μέσην του καὶ μὲ αὐτὰ εἰς ἀνταμοιβὴν παληκαριὰς ἐστόλιζε τοῦ παληκαριοῦ τὴν μέσην· ἔλυε τὴν ζώνην του καὶ ἔδιδεν εἰς τὰς ἀνάγκας τοῦ πολέμου καὶ τὸ ὕστερον νόμισμά του». Books by Δημήτριος Αινιάν
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