Herodotus, The Histories
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CLXXXIII. apo de Augilôn dia deka hêmereôn* alleôn hodou heteros halos kolônos kai hudôr kai phoinikes karpophoroi polloi, kata per kai en toisi heteroisi: kai anthrôpoi oikeousi en autôi toisi ounoma Garamantes esti, ethnos mega ischurôs, hoi epi ton hala gên epiphoreontes houtô speirousi. [2] suntomôtaton d' esti es tous Lôtophagous, ek tôn triêkonta hêmereôn es autous hodos esti: en toisi kai hoi opisthonomoi boes* ginontai: opisthonomoi de dia tode eisi. ta kerea echousi kekuphota es to emprosthe: [3] dia touto opisô anachôreontes nemontai: es gar to emprosthe ouk hoioi te eisi proemballontôn es tên gên tôn kereôn. allo de ouden diapherousi tôn allôn boôn hoti mê touto kai to derma es pachutêta te kai tripsin. [4] hoi Garamantes dê houtoi tous trôglodutas* Aithiopas thêreuousi toisi tethrippoisi: hoi gar trôglodutai Aithiopes podas tachistoi anthrôpôn pantôn eisi tôn hêmeis peri logous apopheromenous akouomen. siteontai de hoi trôglodutai ophis kai saurous kai ta toiauta tôn herpetôn: glôssan de oudemiêi allêi paromoiên nenomikasi, alla tetrigasi kata per hai nukterides.
There are a total of 8 comments on and cross references to this page.
Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 4 (general note)
book 4, chapter 183 (general note)
Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
138 [I. Abundantia.]
Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
troglodytae [Troglodytae]
Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
8, 12, 229 [Intensive perfect.]
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This text is based on the following book(s): 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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