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Herodotus · Histories §7.65.1

Equipment of the Indians and Commander Pharnazathres

Passage 1128 of 1577 · Greek

Summary

Describes the equipment of the Indians, including garments made from trees and reed bows and arrows, as well as their commander Pharnazathres.

§7.65.1Ἰνδοὶ δὲ εἵματα μὲν ἐνδεδυκότες ἀπὸ ξύλων πεποιημένα, τόξα δὲ καλάμινα εἶχον καὶ ὀιστοὺς καλαμίνους· ἐπὶ δὲ σίδηρος ἦν.
The Indians wore garments made from trees, and they had reed bows and reed arrows; and on them was iron.
ἐσταλμένοι μὲν δὴ ἦσαν οὕτω Ἰνδοί, προσετετάχατο δὲ συστρατευόμενοι Φαρναζάθρῃ τῷ Ἀρταβάτεω.
Thus indeed were the Indians equipped, and they were assigned to march under the command of Pharnazathres son of Artabates.

Notes

  1. §7.65.1ἐνδεδυκότες — Perfect active (or middle) participle, understood with an ellipsis of the finite verb ἦσαν (forming a periphrastic construction: εἵματα ἐνδεδυκότες ἦσαν).
  2. §7.65.1ἀπὸ ξύλων — Literally 'from trees', but referring here to cotton (tree-wool), which was characteristic of India.
  3. §7.65.1προσετετάχατο — Third-person plural pluperfect passive of προστάσσω. In the Ionic dialect, the ending -ατο is used instead of -ντο after consonant stems (equivalent to Attic προσετεταγμένοι ἦσαν).

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Herodotus, Histories §7.65.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:7.65.1

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