- 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-grc2:4.91.1-4.91.2
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Darius, pleased with the Tearus River, set up a pillar there with an inscription praising the quality of its waters and himself as the best of men marching against the Scythians.
ἐπὶ τοῦτον ὦν τὸν ποταμὸν ἀπικόμενος ὁ Δαρεῖος ὡς ἐστρατοπεδεύσατο,1 ἡσθεὶς τῷ ποταμῷ στήλην ἔστησε καὶ ἐνθαῦτα, γράμματα ἐγγράψας λέγοντα τάδε.
So when Darius, having arrived at this river, had pitched his camp, being pleased with the river, he set up a pillar here also, having inscribed on it characters that said as follows:
Τεάρου ποταμοῦ κεφαλαὶ ὕδωρ ἄριστόν τε καὶ κάλλιστον παρέχονται2 πάντων ποταμῶν· καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτὰς ἀπίκετο ἐλαύνων ἐπὶ Σκύθας στρατὸν3 ἀνὴρ ἄριστος τε καὶ κάλλιστος πάντων ἀνθρώπων, Δαρεῖος ὁ Ὑστάσπεος, Περσέων τε καὶ πάσης τῆς ἠπείρου βασιλεύς. ταῦτα δὲ ἐνθαῦτα ἐγράφη.
”The sources of the river Tearus provide the best and most beautiful water of all rivers; and to them came, leading an army against the Scythians, the best and most beautiful of all men, Darius son of Hystaspes, king of the Persians and of all the continent.” These things were inscribed there.
- 4.91.1ὡς ἐστρατοπεδεύσατο
The conjunction ὡς introduces a temporal clause ("when/as soon as he had pitched camp"), which, together with the preceding nominative participle ἀπικόμενος, details the sequence of actions leading to the main verb ἔστησε.
- 4.91.2παρέχονται
The third-person plural middle voice of παρέχω, meaning "to provide or furnish from one's own resources". The subject is the plural noun κεφαλαί.
- 4.91.2ἐλαύνων... στρατόν
The verb ἐλαύνω here means "to drive, march, or lead (an army)", taking the accusative στρατόν as its object. The present participle expresses the circumstances ("while marching") accompanying the main verb ἀπίκετο.