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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 · 2026-11-07
During the reign of the blind king Anysis, Sabacos the Ethiopian invaded and ruled Egypt for fifty years, employing criminals to raise the city embankments, particularly in Bubastis where a beautiful temple of Artemis stands.
τοῦτον μὲν τοσαῦτα ἀποδέξασθαι.1 μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον βασιλεῦσαι ἄνδρα τυφλὸν ἐξ Ἀνύσιος πόλιος, τῷ οὔνομα Ἄνυσιν εἶναι. ἐπὶ τούτου βασιλεύοντος ἐλάσαι ἐπʼ Αἴγυπτον χειρὶ πολλῇ Αἰθίοπάς τε καὶ Σαβακῶν τὸν Αἰθιόπων βασιλέα.
This king, they said, performed such deeds. And after him, a blind man from the city of Anysis, whose name was Anysis, became king. During his reign, the Ethiopians and Sabacos, the king of the Ethiopians, invaded Egypt with a great army.
τὸν μὲν δὴ τυφλὸν τοῦτον οἴχεσθαι φεύγοντα ἐς τὰ ἕλεα, τὸν δὲ Αἰθίοπα βασιλεύειν Αἰγύπτου ἐπʼ ἔτεα πεντήκοντα, ἐν τοῖσι αὐτὸν τάδε ἀποδέξασθαι·
This blind king, indeed, fled and departed to the marshes, while the Ethiopian ruled Egypt for fifty years, during which he performed the following deeds:
ὅκως τῶν τις Αἰγυπτίων ἁμάρτοι τι,2 κτείνειν μὲν αὐτῶν οὐδένα ἐθέλειν, τὸν δὲ κατὰ μέγαθος τοῦ ἀδικήματος ἑκάστῳ δικάζειν ἐπιτάσσοντα χώματα χοῦν πρὸς τῇ ἑωυτῶν πόλι, ὅθεν ἕκαστος ἦν τῶν ἀδικεόντων. καὶ οὕτω ἔτι αἱ πόλιες ἐγένοντο ὑψηλότεραι·
Whenever any of the Egyptians committed an offense, he would refuse to put any of them to death, but would pass judgment on each according to the greatness of his crime, commanding him to heap up soil against his own city, from which each of the offenders came. And in this way the cities became still higher;
τὸ μὲν γὰρ πρῶτον ἐχώσθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν τὰς διώρυχας ὀρυξάντων ἐπὶ Σεσώστριος βασιλέος, δεύτερα δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ Αἰθίοπος καὶ κάρτα ὑψηλαὶ ἐγένοντο.
for first they had been raised by those who dug the canals in the reign of King Sesostris, and secondly in the reign of the Ethiopian, and they became very high.
ὑψηλέων δὲ καὶ ἑτερέων γενομενέων ἐν τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ πολίων, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκέει, μάλιστα ἡ ἐν Βουβάστι πόλις ἐξεχώσθη, ἐν τῇ καὶ ἱρόν ἐστι Βουβάστιος ἀξιαπηγητότατον· μέζω μὲν γὰρ ἄλλα καὶ πολυδαπανώτερα ἐστὶ ἱρά, ἡδονὴ δὲ ἰδέσθαι3 οὐδὲν τούτου μᾶλλον. ἡ δὲ Βούβαστις κατὰ Ἑλλάδα γλῶσσαν ἐστὶ Ἄρτεμις.
While other cities in Egypt also became high, in my opinion, the city of Bubastis was raised the most, in which there is also a temple of Bubastis well worth mentioning; for though there are other temples greater and of more cost, none is more of a pleasure to behold than this. Now Bubastis in the Greek tongue is Artemis.
- 2.137.1τοῦτον μὲν τοσαῦτα ἀποδέξασθαι
The series of infinitive clauses starting with τοῦτον at the beginning (such as ἀποδέξασθαι, βασιλεῦσαι, ἐλάσαι) continues the indirect discourse (hearsay) introduced by ἔλεγον οἱ ἱρέες ("the priests said") in 2.136.1.
- 2.137.3ὅκως τῶν τις Αἰγυπτίων ἁμάρτοι τι
The conjunction ὅκως is an Ionic dialect form corresponding to Attic ὅπως ("whenever"). Combined with the optative ἁμάρτοι, it expresses a past general repetition or condition.
- 2.137.5ἡδονὴ δὲ ἰδέσθαι
The aorist middle infinitive ἰδέσθαι ("to behold") functions as an epexegetical infinitive, defining and qualifying the noun ἡδονὴ (literally, "a pleasure to look at").
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-05-25) · Revision history (1, latest 2026-09-22)
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