Herodotus · Histories §7.185.1-7.185.3

Calculation of the Combined Persian Forces Including European Levies

Passage 1248 of 1577 · Greek

Summary

The author estimates the naval and land forces from various European nations, such as Thrace and Macedon, that joined the Persian army, and calculates the total number of fighting men combined with the Asian forces.

§7.185.1τὸ δὲ δὴ ἐκ τῆς Εὐρώπης ἀγόμενον στράτευμα ἔτι προσλογιστέα τούτῳ παντὶ τῷ ἐξηριθμημένῳ· δόκησιν δὲ δεῖ λέγειν.

Now the army led from Europe must still be added to all this that has been enumerated; but one must speak by estimation.

νέας μέν νυν οἱ ἀπὸ Θρηίκης Ἕλληνες καὶ οἱ ἐκ τῶν νήσων τῶν ἐπικειμενέων τῇ Θρηίκῃ παρείχοντο εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν· ἐκ μέν νυν τουτέων τῶν νεῶν ἄνδρες τετρακισχίλιοι καὶ δισμύριοι γίνονται.

Now the Greeks from Thrace and from the islands lying adjacent to Thrace provided one hundred and twenty ships; now from these ships the men amount to twenty-four thousand.

§7.185.2πεζοῦ δὲ τὸν Θρήικες παρείχοντο καὶ Παίονες καὶ Ἐορδοὶ καὶ Βοττιαῖοι καὶ τὸ Χαλκιδικὸν γένος καὶ Βρύγοι καὶ Πίερες καὶ Μακεδόνες καὶ Περραιβοὶ καὶ Ἐνιῆνες καὶ Δόλοπες καὶ Μάγνητες καὶ Ἀχαιοὶ καὶ ὅσοι τῆς Θρηίκης τὴν παραλίην νέμονται, τούτων τῶν ἐθνέων τριήκοντα μυριάδας δοκέω γενέσθαι.

And of the infantry, which the Thracians, Paeonians, Eordi, Bottiaeans, the Chalcidic race, Brygi, Pieres, Macedonians, Perrhaebi, Enienes, Dolopes, Magnetes, Achaeans, and all those who dwell along the coast of Thrace provided, I estimate that from these nations there came thirty tens of thousands.

§7.185.3αὗται ὦν αἱ μυριάδες ἐκείνῃσι προστεθεῖσαι τῇσι ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίης, γίνονται αἱ πᾶσαι ἀνδρῶν αἱ μάχιμοι μυριάδες διηκόσιαι καὶ ἑξήκοντα καὶ τέσσερες, ἔπεισι δὲ ταύτῃσι ἑκατοντάδες ἑκκαίδεκα καὶ δεκάς.

These tens of thousands, then, being added to those from Asia, the total of all the fighting men becomes two million six hundred and forty thousand, and to these are added sixteen hundred and ten.

Notes

§7.185.1προσλογιστέα — The neuter plural of the verbal adjective προσλογιστέος. Although it does not agree in number with the neuter singular subject τὸ... στράτευμα, Herodotus frequently uses the neuter plural of verbal adjectives impersonally to express necessity ('must be added'), often with the subject treated as if it were a direct object.
§7.185.2τὸν — The Ionic form of the relative pronoun ὅν. Its antecedent is the partitive genitive πεζοῦ, and it functions as the direct object of παρείχοντο within the relative clause.

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Herodotus, Histories §7.185.1-7.185.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:7.185.1-7.185.3

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