- Source
- Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
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- CTS URN
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:4.171.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
The passage describes the territory of the Auschisae to the west of the Asbystae, the small tribe of the Bacales living in the middle of their land, and their adherence to the same customs as the inland dwellers of Cyrene.
Ἀσβυστέων δὲ ἔχονται1 τὸ πρὸς ἑσπέρης Αὐσχίσαι· οὗτοι ὑπὲρ Βάρκης2 οἰκέουσι, κατήκοντες ἐπὶ θάλασσαν κατʼ Εὐεσπερίδας. Αὐσχισέων δὲ κατὰ μέσον τῆς χώρης οἰκέουσι Βάκαλες, ὀλίγον ἔθνος, κατήκοντες ἐπὶ θάλασσαν κατὰ Ταύχειρα πόλιν τῆς Βαρκαίης· νόμοισι δὲ τοῖσι αὐτοῖσι χρέωνται τοῖσι3 καὶ οἱ ὑπὲρ Κυρήνης.
Bordering on the Asbystae to the west are the Auschisae; these dwell inland of Barca, reaching down to the sea at Euesperides. In the middle of the territory of the Auschisae dwell the Bacales, a small tribe, reaching down to the sea at Tauchira, a city of the Barcaean territory; they practice the same customs as those who dwell inland of Cyrene.
- 4.171.1ἔχονται
The middle voice ἔχομαι of the verb ἔχω is used with the genitive (here Ἀσβυστέων) to mean "to border on" or "to be next to."
- 4.171.1ὑπὲρ Βάρκης
The preposition ὑπέρ with the genitive is used geographically to indicate living "inland" or "up country" from the coast. The same applies to ὑπὲρ Κυρήνης later in the section.
- 4.171.1νόμοισι δὲ τοῖσι αὐτοῖσι χρέωνται τοῖσι
This expresses the correlative construction "the same ... as." The first τοῖσι αὐτοῖσι ("the same customs") is followed by the second τοῖσι, which acts as a relative pronoun (homonymous with the definite article in Ionic) referring back to it. The verb χρέωνται is the third-person plural present of χράομαι, which governs the dative.