- 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-grc2:4.194.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
The text describes the Gyzantes, neighbors of the Zauyces, noting their practice of making honey manually as well as using bees, and their custom of painting themselves with red ochre and eating the abundant mountain monkeys.
τούτων δὲ Γύζαντες ἔχονται, ἐν τοῖσι μέλι πολλὸν μὲν μέλισσαι κατεργάζονται, πολλῷ δʼ ἔτι πλέον λέγεται δημιοεργοὺς ἄνδρας ποιέειν.1 μιλτοῦνται δʼ ὦν πάντες οὗτοι καὶ πιθηκοφαγέουσι. οἳ δὲ σφι ἄφθονοι ὅσοι2 ἐν τοῖσι ὄρεσι γίνονται.
Next to these are the Gyzantes, among whom a great deal of honey is made by bees, and it is said that craftsmen make far more still. At any rate, all these people paint themselves with red ochre and eat monkeys. And these are found in abundance for them, as many as exist in the mountains.
- 4.194.1λέγεται δημιοεργοὺς ἄνδρας ποιέειν
The impersonal construction 'λέγεται' ('it is said') governs an accusative and infinitive clause, with 'δημιοεργοὺς ἄνδρας' ('craftsmen') as the subject accusative and 'ποιέειν' ('to make') as the infinitive. The omitted object of the infinitive is 'πλέον (μέλι)' ('more honey'), supplied from the preceding clause.
- 4.194.1οἳ δὲ σφι ἄφθονοι ὅσοι
'οἳ' functions as a demonstrative pronoun referring back to the monkeys ('πίθηκοι') implied in 'πιθηκοφαγέουσι'. 'ἄφθονοι' is used predicatively, and the 'ὅσοι' clause ('as many as are produced/exist') limits or specifies the subject.