- 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-grc2:3.93.1-3.93.3
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
The passage details the geographical borders and tribute amounts for the twelfth (Bactrians) through the sixteenth (Parthians and others) provinces under Darius.
ἀπὸ Βακτριανῶν δὲ μέχρι Αἰγλῶν ἑξήκοντα καὶ τριηκόσια τάλαντα φόρος ἦν· νομὸς δυωδέκατος οὗτος. ἀπὸ Πακτυϊκῆς δὲ καὶ Ἀρμενίων καὶ τῶν προσεχέων μέχρι τοῦ πόντου τοῦ Εὐξείνου τετρακόσια τάλαντα· νομὸς τρίτος καὶ δέκατος οὗτος.
From the Bactrians as far as the Aegli, the tribute was three hundred and sixty talents; this was the twelfth province. From Pactyica and the Armenians and their neighbors as far as the Euxine Sea, four hundred talents; this was the thirteenth province.
ἀπὸ δὲ Σαγαρτίων καὶ Σαραγγέων καὶ Θαμαναίων καὶ Οὐτίων καὶ Μύκων καὶ τῶν ἐν τῇσι νήσοισι οἰκεόντων τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρῇ θαλάσσῃ,1 ἐν τῇσι τοὺς ἀνασπάστους καλεομένους κατοικίζει βασιλεύς, ἀπὸ τούτων πάντων2 ἑξακόσια τάλαντα ἐγίνετο φόρος· νομὸς τέταρτος καὶ δέκατος οὗτος.
From the Sagartians, Sarangians, Thamanaeans, Utians, Myci, and those who inhabit the islands in the Red Sea, in which the king settles those called “the transplanted,” from all of these six hundred talents arose as tribute; this was the fourteenth province.
Σάκαι δὲ καὶ Κάσπιοι πεντήκοντα καὶ διηκόσια ἀπαγίνεον τάλαντα· νομὸς πέμπτος καὶ δέκατος οὗτος. Πάρθοι δὲ καὶ Χοράσμιοι καὶ Σόγδοι τε καὶ Ἄρειοι τριηκόσια τάλαντα· νομὸς ἕκτος καὶ δέκατος οὗτος.
The Sacae and Caspians brought in two hundred and fifty talents; this was the fifteenth province. The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdians, and Arians, three hundred talents; this was the sixteenth province.
- 3.93.2τῶν ἐν τῇσι νήσοισι οἰκεόντων τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρῇ θαλάσσῃ
The participle phrase with the article τῶν ... οἰκεόντων ('those who inhabit') is qualified by the subsequent genitive phrase τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρῇ θαλάσσῃ ('those in the Red Sea'). The relative clause en tēisi... ('in which...') further modifies the noun νῆσοι ('islands') contained within the first phrase, forming a complex nested structure.
- 3.93.2ἀπὸ τούτων πάντων
This is a resumptive prepositional phrase inserted after a long list of genitive nouns beginning with ἀπὸ δὲ Σαγαρτίων. It acts to gather all the previously mentioned elements before the main verb ἐγίνετο and clarify the overall syntax of the sentence.