- 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-grc2:4.182.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
The passage describes the region of Augila, located another ten days' journey from the Ammonians, featuring a salt hill and water, where the Nasamonians regularly visit to harvest dates.
μετὰ δὲ Ἀμμωνίους διὰ τῆς ὀφρύης τῆς ψάμμου διʼ ἀλλέων δέκα ἡμερέων ὁδοῦ1 κολωνός τε ἁλός ἐστι ὅμοιος τῷ Ἀμμωνίῳ2 καὶ ὕδωρ, καὶ ἄνθρωποι περὶ αὐτὸν οἰκέουσι· τῷ δὲ χώρῳ τούτῳ οὔνομα Αὔγιλα ἐστί. ἐς τοῦτον τὸν χῶρον οἱ Νασαμῶνες ὀπωριεῦντες3 τοὺς φοίνικας φοιτῶσι.
After the Ammonians, along the ridge of sand, at a distance of another ten days’ journey, there is a hill of salt like that of the Ammonians, and water, and men dwell around it; the name of this place is Augila. To this place the Nasamonians come regularly to harvest the dates.
- 4.182.1διʼ ἀλλέων δέκα ἡμερέων ὁδοῦ
The preposition διά with the genitive case denotes distance or intervals, meaning 'after another ten days' journey.' It mirrors the phrase διὰ δέκα ἡμερέων ὁδοῦ in 4.181.2, but adds ἀλλέων ('other') to indicate a cumulative distance.
- 4.182.1τῷ Ἀμμωνίῳ
A dative case governed by the adjective ὅμοιος ('like'). The noun κολωνῷ ('hill') is ellipsis-omitted, meaning 'like the [hill] of the Ammonians.'
- 4.182.1ὀπωριεῦντες
The future active participle (masculine plural nominative) of the verb ὀπωρίζω ('to gather fruit, harvest autumn crops'). It is used with the main verb φοιτῶσι to express purpose ('in order to harvest'). It exhibits the characteristic Ionic contraction (-ευ-).