- 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-grc2:4.36.1-4.36.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
The author concludes his account of the Hyperboreans, suggesting the existence of southern equivalents based on symmetry, and criticizes contemporary unrealistic world maps, promising his own accurate geographical description.
καὶ ταῦτα μὲν Ὑπερβορέων πέρι εἰρήσθω· τὸν γὰρ περὶ Ἀβάριος λόγον τοῦ λεγομένου εἶναι Ὑπερβορέου οὐ λέγω, ὡς τὸν ὀιστὸν περιέφερε1 κατὰ πᾶσαν γῆν οὐδὲν σιτεόμενος. εἰ δὲ εἰσὶ ὑπερβόρεοι τινὲς ἄνθρωποι, εἰσὶ καὶ ὑπερνότιοι ἄλλοι.
And let this much have been said concerning the Hyperboreans. For I do not tell the story about Abaris, who is said to be a Hyperborean, how he carried the arrow round all the earth, eating nothing. But if there are any Hyperborean men, there are also other Hypernotian ones.
γελῶ δὲ ὁρέων γῆς περιόδους γράψαντας πολλοὺς ἤδη καὶ οὐδένα νοονεχόντως ἐξηγησάμενον· οἳ Ὠκεανόν τε ῥέοντα γράφουσι πέριξ τὴν γῆν ἐοῦσαν κυκλοτερέα ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου, καὶ τὴν Ἀσίην τῇ Εὐρώπῃ ποιεύντων2 ἴσην. ἐν ὀλίγοισι γὰρ ἐγὼ δηλώσω μέγαθός τε ἑκάστης αὐτέων καὶ οἵη τις ἐστὶ ἐς γραφὴν ἑκάστη.
And I laugh when I see that many before now have drawn maps of the earth, and no one has explained it in a reasonable way; who draw Ocean flowing all around the earth, which is circular as if made by a lathe, and make Asia equal to Europe. For in a few words I shall show the size of each of them, and what each is like to draw.
- 4.36.1ὡς τὸν ὀιστὸν περιέφερε
The ὡς clause serves as an appositive or explanatory clause to the preceding τὸν περὶ Ἀβάριος λόγον ('the story about Abaris'), representing 'how' or 'that' he carried the arrow.
- 4.36.2ποιεύντων
An Ionic genitive plural present participle (for ποιεόντων). Although one would expect a nominative plural participle (ποιεῦντες) to agree with the relative pronoun οἳ, the genitive is used here either due to anacoluthon (influenced by the accusative plurals in the main clause or an implied genitive referring to the mapmakers) or as a genitive absolute.