- 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-grc2:4.19.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Describes that to the east of the agricultural Scythians, across the river Panticapes, dwell the nomad Scythians who do not farm, and whose treeless territory extends for a fourteen days' journey as far as the river Gerrhus.
τὸ δὲ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ τῶν γεωργῶν τούτων Σκυθέων, διαβάντι1 τὸν Παντικάπην ποταμόν, νομάδες ἤδη Σκύθαι νέμονται, οὔτε τι σπείροντες οὐδέν οὔτε ἀροῦντες· ψιλή δέ δενδρέων2 ἡ πᾶσα αὕτη πλήν τῆς Ὑλαίης. οἱ δὲ νομάδες οὗτοι τὸ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ ἡμερέων τεσσέρων καὶ δέκα ὁδὸν3 νέμονται χώρην κατατείνουσαν ἐπὶ ποταμὸν Γέρρον.
But to the east of these agricultural Scythians, for one who has crossed the river Panticapes, nomad Scythians now occupy the land, who neither sow anything at all nor plow; and this whole territory is bare of trees, except for the Woodland. These nomads occupy the region toward the east for a journey of fourteen days, stretching as far as the river Gerrhus.
- 4.19.1διαβάντι
Dative masculine singular of the aorist participle, functioning as a dative of reference or relation, commonly used in geographical descriptions to indicate the viewpoint of a traveler ("for one having crossed").
- 4.19.1δενδρέων
The genitive plural δενδρέων is a genitive of separation or deprivation, dependent on the adjective ψιλή ("bare of trees").
- 4.19.1ὁδὸν
Accusative of extent of space, indicating the distance of the journey ("a journey of fourteen days"), serving to define the spatial range of the verb νέμονται.