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    Herodotus, The Histories

    Editions and translations: Greek | English (ed. A. D. Godley)
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    XLII. hosoi men dê Dios Thêbaieos hidruntai hiron ê nomou tou Thêbaiou eisi, houtoi men nun pantes oiôn apechomenoi aigas thuousi. [2] theous gar dê ou tous autous hapantes homoiôs* Aiguptioi sebontai, plên Isios te kai Osirios, ton dê Dionuson einai legousi: toutous de homoiôs hapantes sebontai. hosoi de tou Mendêtos ektêntai hiron ê nomou tou Mendêsiou eisi, houtoi de aigôn apechomenoi ois thuousi. [3] Thêbaioi men nun kai hosoi dia toutous oiôn apechontai, dia tade legousi ton nomon tonde sphisi tethênai. Hêraklea* thelêsai pantôs idesthai ton Dia, kai ton ouk ethelein ophthênai hup' autou: telos de, epeite lipareein ton Hêraklea, tade ton Dia mêchanêsasthai: [4] krion ekdeiranta* proschesthai te tên kephalên apotamonta tou kriou kai endunta to nakos houtô hoi heôuton epidexai. apo toutou krioprosôpon tou Dios tôgalma poieusi Aiguptioi, apo de Aiguptiôn Ammônioi, eontes Aiguptiôn te kai Aithiopôn apoikoi kai phônên metaxu amphoterôn nomizontes. [5] dokeein de moi, kai to ounoma Ammônioi apo toude sphisi tên epônumiên epoiêsanto*: Amoun gar Aiguptioi kaleousi ton Dia. tous de krious ou thuousi Thêbaioi, all' eisi sphi hiroi dia touto. [6] miêi de hêmerêi tou eniautou, en hortêi tou Dios*, krion hena katakopsantes kai apodeirantes kata tôuto enduousi tôgalma tou Dios, kai epeita allo agalma Hêrakleos prosagousi pros auto. tauta de poiêsantes tuptontai* hoi peri to hiron hapantes ton krion kai epeita en hirêi thêkêi thaptousi auton.


    There are a total of 13 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    book 2 (general note)
    book 2, chapter 42 (general note)
    book 2, chapter 42, section 4: phônên

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    529 [Men . . men. — De . . de. — Men . . men . . de . . de. Men . . alla u. a. — Men . . te oder kai.]

    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    24, 710 [Book 24 (Ô)]

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    osiris [Osīris]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    685 [Infinitive in Indirect Discourse.]
    807 [Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with tou, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.]

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    Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
    OCLC: 1610641
    ISBN: 0674991303, 0674991311, 0674991338, 0674991346

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