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Herodotus · Histories §7.66.1-7.66.2

Equipment and Commanders of the Arians and Allied Tribes

Passage 1129 of 1577 · Greek

Summary

This passage describes the equipment and commander of the Arians, as well as the equipment and respective commanders of the Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdians, Gandarians, and Dadikans, who were equipped similarly to the Bactrians.

§7.66.1ἄριοι δὲ τόξοισι μὲν ἐσκευασμένοι ἦσαν Μηδικοῖσι, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα κατά περ Βάκτριοι.
The Arians were equipped with Median bows, but in other respects they were just like the Bactrians.
Ἀρίων δὲ ἦρχε Σισάμνης ὁ Ὑδάρνεος.
Sisamnes son of Hydarnes commanded the Arians.
Πάρθοι δὲ καὶ Χοράσμιοι καὶ Σόγδοι τε καὶ Γανδάριοι καὶ Δαδίκαι τὴν αὐτὴν σκευὴν ἔχοντες τὴν καὶ Βάκτριοι ἐστρατεύοντο.
The Parthians, Chorasmians, Sogdians, Gandarians, and Dadikans marched having the same equipment as the Bactrians.
§7.66.2τούτων δὲ ἦρχον οἵδε. Πάρθων μὲν καὶ Χορασμίων Ἀρτάβαζος ὁ Φαρνάκεος, Σόγδων δὲ Ἀζάνης ὁ Ἀρταίου, Γανδαρίων δὲ καὶ Δαδικέων Ἀρτύφιος ὁ Ἀρταβάνου.
These ruled them: of the Parthians and Chorasmians, Artabazus son of Pharnaces; of the Sogdians, Azanes son of Artaeus; and of the Gandarians and Dadikans, Artyphius son of Artabanus.

Notes

  1. §7.66.1τὰ δὲ ἄλλα κατά περ Βάκτριοι — The accusative of respect τὰ ἄλλα ("in other respects") is used with the comparative phrase κατά περ ("just as"). Βάκτριοι ("Bactrians") is in the nominative case, functioning as the subject of an implied verb corresponding to ἐσκευασμένοι ἦσαν.
  2. §7.66.1τὴν αὐτὴν σκευὴν ἔχοντες τὴν καὶ Βάκτριοι — The definite article τὴν is used here as a relative pronoun (equivalent to Attic ἣν), referring back to τὴν αὐτὴν σκευὴν. The particle καί functions comparatively ("which the Bactrians also [had]").

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Herodotus, Histories §7.66.1-7.66.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:7.66.1-7.66.2

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