Katherine Woods
Kings College London
Herodotus: cinnamon bird - practice
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τὸ δὲ δὴ κινάμωμον ἔτι τούτων θωμαστότερον συλλέγουσι . ὅκου μὲν γὰρ γίνεται καὶ ἥτις μιν γῆ ἡ τρέφουσα ἐστί , οὐκ ἔχουσι εἰπεῖν , πλὴν ὅτι λόγῳ οἰκότι χρεώμενοι ἐν τοῖσιδε χωρίοισι φασὶ τινὲς αὐτὸ φύεσθαι ἐν τοῖσι ὁ Διόνυσος ἐτράφη : ὄρνιθας δὲ λέγουσι μεγάλας φορέειν ταῦτα τὰ κάρφεα τὰ ἡμεῖς ἀπὸ Φοινίκων μαθόντες κινάμωμον καλέομεν , φορέειν δὲ τὰς ὄρνιθας ἐς νεοσσιὰς προσπεπλασμένας ἐκ πηλοῦ πρὸς ἀποκρήμνοισι ὄρεσι , ἔνθα πρόσβασιν ἀνθρώπῳ οὐδεμίαν εἶναι . πρὸς ὦν δὴ ταῦτα τοὺς Ἀραβίους σοφίζεσθαι τάδε : βοῶν τε καὶ ὄνων τῶν ἀπογινομένων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὑποζυγίων τὰ μέλεα διαταμόντας ὡς μέγιστα κομίζειν ἐς ταῦτα τὰ χωρία , καί σφεα θέντας ἀγχοῦ τῶν νεοσσιέων ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι ἑκὰς αὐτέων : τὰς δὲ ὄρνιθας καταπετομένας1 τὰ μέλεα τῶν ὑποζυγίων ἀναφορέειν ἐπὶ τὰς νεοσσιάς , τὰς δὲ οὐ δυναμένας ἴσχειν καταρρήγνυσθαι ἐπὶ γῆν , τοὺς δὲ ἐπιόντας συλλέγειν . οὕτω μὲν τὸ κινάμωμον συλλεγόμενον ἐκ τούτων ἀπικνέεσθαι ἐς τὰς ἄλλας χώρας .
As
for
cinnamon
,
they
gather
it
in
an
even
stranger
way
.
Where
it
comes
from
and
what
land
produces
it
they
cannot
say
,
except
that
it
is
reported
,
reasonably
enough
,
to
grow
in
the
places
where
Dionysus
was
reared
.
There
are
great
birds
,
it
is
said
,
that
take
these
dry
sticks
which
we
have
learned
from
the
Phoenicians
to
call
cinnamon
and
carry
them
off
to
nests
stuck
with
mud
to
precipitous
cliffs
,
where
man
has
no
means
of
approach
.
The
Arabian
solution
to
this
is
to
cut
dead
oxen
and
asses
and
other
beasts
of
burden
into
the
largest
possible
pieces
,
then
to
set
these
near
the
eyries
and
withdraw
far
off
.
The
birds
then
fly
down
(
it
is
said
)
and
carry
the
pieces
of
the
beasts
up
to
their
nests
,
while
these
,
not
being
able
to
bear
the
weight
,
break
and
fall
down
the
mountain
side
,
and
then
the
Arabians
come
and
gather
them
up
.
Thus
is
cinnamon
said
to
be
gathered
,
and
so
to
come
from
Arabia
to
other
lands
.