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- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-06
While the other kings read by the priests left no notable achievements, the last king, Moeris, left great monuments including the northern gateway of the temple of Hephaestus, a lake, and pyramids.
τῶν δὲ ἄλλων βασιλέων1 οὐ γὰρ ἔλεγον οὐδεμίαν ἔργων ἀπόδεξιν καὶ οὐδὲν εἶναι2 λαμπρότητος, πλὴν ἑνὸς τοῦ ἐσχάτου αὐτῶν Μοίριος·
But of the other kings, for they said there was no display of works and nothing of brilliance on their part, except for one, the last of them, Moeris.
τοῦτον δὲ ἀποδέξασθαι3 μνημόσυνα τοῦ Ἡφαίστου τὰ πρὸς βορέην ἄνεμον τετραμμένα προπύλαια, λίμνην τε ὀρύξαι, τῆς ἡ περίοδος ὅσων ἐστὶ σταδίων4 ὕστερον δηλώσω, πυραμίδας τε ἐν αὐτῇ οἰκοδομῆσαι, τῶν τοῦ μεγάθεος πέρι ὁμοῦ αὐτῇ τῇ λίμνῃ ἐπιμνήσομαι· τοῦτον μὲν τοσαῦτα ἀποδέξασθαι, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων οὐδένα οὐδέν.
And they said that this king left as memorials the propylaea of the temple of Hephaestus facing the north wind, and dug a lake (the circumference of which, as to how many stades it is, I will declare later), and built pyramids in it (of whose size I will make mention together with the lake itself). This king, then, left so many works, but of the others, no one left anything.
- 2.101.1τῶν δὲ ἄλλων βασιλέων
Genitive of relation ('with regard to the other kings') or subjective genitive limiting the noun phrases οὐδεμίαν... ἀπόδεξιν and οὐδὲν ... λαμπρότητος, setting the topic at the beginning of the sentence.
- 2.101.1ἔλεγον οὐδεμίαν ἔργων ἀπόδεξιν καὶ οὐδὲν εἶναι
In the indirect discourse introduced by ἔλεγον (whose subject is the priests), the infinitive εἶναι, explicitly appearing with οὐδὲν, is also understood with the preceding οὐδεμίαν ἔργων ἀπόδεξιν. The multiple negatives (οὐ... οὐδεμίαν... οὐδέν) reinforce each other to express a strong negation.
- 2.101.2τοῦτον δὲ ἀποδέξασθαι
ἀποδέξασθαι is the ionic form of the aorist middle infinitive of ἀποδείκνυμαι ('to display, build, or leave behind'). Dependent on ἔλεγον in the previous section, it forms an accusative-and-infinitive construction with τοῦτον as its subject.
- 2.101.2τῆς ἡ περίοδος ὅσων ἐστὶ σταδίων
This is a compressed construction characteristic of Greek, where the indirect question clause ὅσων ἐστὶ σταδίων ('how many stades it is') is embedded within the relative clause introduced by the genitive relative pronoun τῆς ('of which [lake]').