Herodotus 2.50
Sisk, Mercedes A. /
- Created on 2017-05-04 19:27:53
- Translated by Mercedes Sisk
- Aligned by Sisk, Mercedes A.
English translated by David Grene
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σχεδὸν δὲ καὶ πάντων τὰ οὐνόματα τῶν θεῶν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐλήλυθε ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα . διότι μὲν γὰρ ἐκ τῶν βαρβάρων ἥκει , πυνθανόμενος οὕτω εὑρίσκω ἐόν : δοκέω δ᾽ ὦν μάλιστα ἀπ᾽ Αἰγύπτου ἀπῖχθαι . ὅτι γὰρ δὴ μὴ Ποσειδέωνος καὶ Διοσκούρων , ὡς καὶ πρότερόν μοι ταῦτα εἴρηται , καὶ Ἥρης καὶ Ἱστίης καὶ Θέμιος καὶ Χαρίτων καὶ Νηρηίδων , τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν Αἰγυπτίοισι αἰεί κοτε τὰ οὐνόματα ἐστὶ ἐν τῇ χώρῃ . λέγω δὲ τὰ λέγουσι αὐτοὶ Αἰγύπτιοι . τῶν δὲ οὔ φασι θεῶν γινώσκειν τὰ οὐνόματα , οὗτοι δέ μοι δοκέουσι ὑπὸ Πελασγῶν ὀνομασθῆναι , πλὴν Ποσειδέωνος : τοῦτον δὲ τὸν θεὸν παρὰ Λιβύων ἐπύθοντο : οὐδαμοὶ γὰρ ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς Ποσειδέωνος οὔνομα ἔκτηνται εἰ μὴ Λίβυες καὶ τιμῶσι τὸν θεὸν τοῦτον αἰεί . νομίζουσι δ᾽ ὦν Αἰγύπτιοι οὐδ᾽ ἥρωσι οὐδέν .
The
names
of
nearly
all
the
gods
came
from
Egypt
to
Greece
.
That
these
gods
came
from
the
barbarians
I
found
on
my
inquiry
to
be
true
;
personally
,
I
believe
they
came
from
Egypt
.
For
except
for
Poseidon
and
the
Dioscuri
,
as
I
mentioned
before
,
and
also
Hera
,
Hestia
,
Themis
,
and
the
Graces
and
Nereids
,
of
all
the
other
gods
the
names
have
always
existed
in
Egypt
.
I
say
what
the
Egyptians
themselves
say
.
In
the
case
of
gods
of
whom
the
Egyptians
say
they
do
not
know
the
names
,
these
,
I
think
,
were
named
by
the
Pelasgians
,
except
for
Poseidon
.
This
god
the
Greeks
learned
of
from
the
Libyans
.
No
other
people
save
the
Libyans
have
had
Poseidon
'
s
name
established
among
them
from
the
beginning
,
and
they
have
always
honored
him
.
The
Egyptians
do
not
proffer
ritual
honors
to
heroes
at
all
.