- Source
- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:2.130.1-2.130.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-07
Describes the wooden cow in which Mycerinus buried his daughter, kept in the palace of Sais, and the naked wooden colossal statues of his concubines standing nearby.
αὕτη ὦν ἡ βοῦς γῇ1 οὐκ ἐκρύφθη, ἀλλʼ ἔτι καὶ ἐς ἐμὲ ἦν φανερή, ἐν Σάι μὲν πόλι ἐοῦσα, κειμένη δὲ ἐν τοῖσι βασιληίοισι ἐν οἰκήματι ἠσκημένῳ· θυμιήματα δὲ παρʼ αὐτῇ παντοῖα καταγίζουσι ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ἡμέρην, νύκτα δὲ ἑκάστην πάννυχος λύχνος παρακαίεται.
This cow, then, was not buried in the earth, but was still visible even down to my own time, being in the city of Sais, and placed in a richly adorned chamber in the palace. Beside her they burn all kinds of incense every day, and every night a lamp burns beside her all night long.
ἀγχοῦ δὲ τῆς βοὸς ταύτης ἐν ἄλλῳ οἰκήματι εἰκόνες τῶν παλλακέων τῶν Μυκερίνου ἑστᾶσι, ὡς ἔλεγον οἱ ἐν Σάι πόλι ἱρέες· ἑστᾶσι μὲν γὰρ ξύλιναι κολοσσοί, ἐοῦσαι ἀριθμὸν2 ὡς εἴκοσι μάλιστά κῃ, γυμναὶ ἐργασμέναι· αἵτινες μέντοι εἰσί, οὐκ ἔχω εἰπεῖν πλὴν ἢ τὰ λεγόμενα.3
Near this cow, in another chamber, stand images of the concubines of Mycerinus, as the priests in the city of Sais said. For there stand wooden colossal statues, being about twenty in number, fashioned naked; who they actually are, however, I am not able to say, except for what is told.
- 2.130.1γῇ
Dative of place, meaning "in the earth". It is an archaic or poetic usage representing place without the preposition ἐν, dependent on the verb κρύπτω (to hide, bury).
- 2.130.2ἀριθμὸν
Accusative of respect (or specification), modifying the participle ἐοῦσαι (present participle feminine plural of εἰμί, agreeing with κολοσσοί), meaning "in number" or "as to number".
- 2.130.2πλὴν ἢ τὰ λεγόμενα
The combination πλὴν ἤ acts as a preposition meaning "except" or "other than". τὰ λεγόμενα is the articular neuter plural present passive participle of λέγω, meaning "the things said" or "what is told", yielding the overall meaning "except for what is told".