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Herodotus · Histories §3.92.1-3.92.2

Tributes of the Ninth to Eleventh Satrapies

Passage 496 of 1577 · Greek

Summary

Describes the composition and the tribute of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh provinces, which include Babylon, Ecbatana, and the peoples around the Caspian Sea.

§3.92.1ἀπὸ Βαβυλῶνος δὲ καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς Ἀσσυρίης χίλιά οἱ προσήιε τάλαντα ἀργυρίου καὶ παῖδες ἐκτομίαι πεντακόσιοι· νομὸς εἴνατος οὗτος.
And from Babylon and the rest of Assyria there came in to him a thousand talents of silver and five hundred eunuch boys; this was the ninth province.
ἀπὸ δὲ Ἀγβατάνων καὶ τῆς λοιπῆς Μηδικῆς καὶ Παρικανίων καὶ Ὀρθοκορυβαντίων πεντήκοντά τε καὶ τετρακόσια τάλαντα· νομὸς δέκατος οὗτος.
And from Ecbatana and the rest of Media, and the Paricanians and Orthocorybantians, four hundred and fifty talents; this was the tenth province.
§3.92.2Κάσπιοι δὲ καὶ Παυσίκαι καὶ Παντίμαθοί τε καὶ Δαρεῖται ἐς τὠυτὸ συμφέροντες διηκόσια τάλαντα ἀπαγίνεον· νομὸς ἑνδέκατος οὗτος.
The Caspians, Pausicae, Pantimathi, and Dareitae, contributing together, brought in two hundred talents; this was the eleventh province.

Notes

  1. 3.92.1οἱ — The dative singular of the third-person pronoun (Ionic), referring to King Darius, functioning as the indirect object of the verb προσήιε.
  2. 3.92.2ἐς τὠυτὸ συμφέροντες — τὠυτό is a crasis for τὸ αὐτό. The present participle συμφέροντες (from συμφέρω) means 'contributing together' or 'bringing into one and the same account', indicating that these tribes pooled their tribute under a single province.

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Herodotus, Histories §3.92.1-3.92.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:3.92.1-3.92.2

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