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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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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:3.92.1-3.92.2
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Describes the composition and the tribute of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh provinces, which include Babylon, Ecbatana, and the peoples around the Caspian Sea.
ἀπὸ Βαβυλῶνος δὲ καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς Ἀσσυρίης χίλιά οἱ1 προσήιε τάλαντα ἀργυρίου καὶ παῖδες ἐκτομίαι πεντακόσιοι· νομὸς εἴνατος οὗτος. ἀπὸ δὲ Ἀγβατάνων καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς Μηδικῆς καὶ Παρικανίων καὶ Ὀρθοκορυβαντίων πεντήκοντά τε καὶ τετρακόσια τάλαντα· νομὸς δέκατος οὗτος.
And from Babylon and the rest of Assyria there came in to him a thousand talents of silver and five hundred eunuch boys; this was the ninth province. And from Ecbatana and the rest of Media, and the Paricanians and Orthocorybantians, four hundred and fifty talents; this was the tenth province.
Κάσπιοι δὲ καὶ Παυσίκαι καὶ Παντίμαθοί τε καὶ Δαρεῖται ἐς τὠυτὸ συμφέροντες2 διηκόσια τάλαντα ἀπαγίνεον· νομὸς ἑνδέκατος οὗτος.
The Caspians, Pausicae, Pantimathi, and Dareitae, contributing together, brought in two hundred talents; this was the eleventh province.
- 3.92.1οἱ
The dative singular of the third-person pronoun (Ionic), referring to King Darius, functioning as the indirect object of the verb προσήιε.
- 3.92.2ἐς τὠυτὸ συμφέροντες
τὠυτό is a crasis for τὸ αὐτό. The present participle συμφέροντες (from συμφέρω) means 'contributing together' or 'bringing into one and the same account', indicating that these tribes pooled their tribute under a single province.