Section 3 (phrases)

Question 1

τοῖς μὲν δὴ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων

Answer 1

To some of the Egyptians

Question 2

ἱεροί εἰσιν οἱ κροκόδειλοι,

Answer 2

crocodiles are sacred

Question 3

τοῖς δ’ οὒ,

Answer 3

and to others they are not

Question 4

ἀλλ’ ἅτε πολεμίους περιέπουσι.

Answer 4

but they treat them as enemies.

Question 5

οἱ δὲ περί τε Θήβας καὶ τὴν Μοίρεως λίμνην οἰκουντες

Answer 5

Those who live around Thebes and Lake Moeris

Question 6

καὶ κάρτα ἡγοῦνται αὐτοὺς εἶναι ἱερούς.

Answer 6

actually consider them to be very holy.

Question 7

ἕνα δὲ ἑκάτεροι τρέφουσι κροκόδειλον,

Answer 7

Each [community] raises one crocodile

Question 8

δεδιδαγμένον εἶναι χειροήθη·

Answer 8

taught to be tame

Question 9

ἀρτήματα δὲ εἰς τὰ ὦτα ἐνθέντες

Answer 9

inserting ornaments into their ears

Question 10

καὶ ἀμφιδέας περὶ τοὺς προσθίους πόδας,

Answer 10

and bracelets around their front feet

Question 11

καὶ σιτία ἀποτακτὰ διδόντες

Answer 11

and giving them specially prepared food

Question 12

καὶ ἱερεῖα,

Answer 12

and animals for sacrifice

Question 13

περιέπουσιν ὡς

Answer 13

they treat them as

Question 14

κάλλιστα ζῶντας·

Answer 14

the noblest of living things

Question 15

ἀποθανόντας δὲ

Answer 15

and when they die

Question 16

ταριχεύοντες

Answer 16

embalming them

Question 17

θάπτουσιν

Answer 17

they bury them

Question 18

ἐν ἱεραῖς θήκαις.

Answer 18

in holy tombs.

Question 19

οἱ δὲ περὶ Ἐλεφαντίνην πόλιν οἰκοῦντες

Answer 19

But those who live around the city
Elephantine

Question 20

καὶ ἐσθίουσιν αὐτοὺς,

Answer 20

actually eat them

Question 21

οὐχ ἡγούμενοι

Answer 21

since they do not consider

Question 22

ἱεροὺς εἶναι.

Answer 22

them to be holy.

Question 23

ἄγραι δἐ αὐτῶν πολλαὶ καθεστήκασι καὶ παντοῖαι·

Answer 23

Many and various methods of catching them have been established

Question 24

ἣ δ’ ἐμοί γε δοκεῖ ἀξιωτάτη ἀφηγήσεως εἶναι

Answer 24

and the one which seems to me
most worthy of narration,

Question 25

ταύτην γράφω·

Answer 25

this one I write [here].

Question 26

ἐπειδὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ τις

Answer 26

Whenever someone puts the back of a hog

Question 27

περὶ ἄγκιστρον

Answer 27

[as bait] on a hook,

Question 28

μεθίησι

Answer 28

he casts it

Question 29

εἰς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν·

Answer 29

into the middle of the river.

Question 30

αὐτὸς δὲ

Answer 30

And he himself

Question 31

ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλους τοῦ ποταμοῦ

Answer 31

on the banks of the river,

Question 32

ἔχων δέλφακα ζωὴν,

Answer 32

having a living sow

Question 33

ταύτην τύπτει.

Answer 33

strikes her.

Question 34

ἐπακούσας δὲ τῆς φωνῆς ὁ κροκόδειλος

Answer 34

The crocodile, having heard the noise

Question 35

ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν·

Answer 35

heads towards the sound.

Question 36

ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ

Answer 36

and coming upon the pig-back

Question 37

καταπίνει,

Answer 37

swallows it down

Question 38

οἱ δὲ ἕλκουσι.

Answer 38

and they drag [it in].

Question 39

ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἐξελκυσθῇ εἰς γῆν,

Answer 39

Then, when it has been dragged out onto land

Question 40

πρῶτον ἁπάντων ὁ θηρευτὴς

Answer 40

first of all the hunter

Question 41

πηλῷ κατέπλασεν αὐτοῦ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς·

Answer 41

smears its eyes with mud;

Question 42

τούτο δὲ ποιήσας

Answer 42

having done this

Question 43

κάρτα εὐπετῶς τὰ λοιπὰ χειροῦται·

Answer 43

he masters the rest very easily;

Question 44

μὴ ποιήσας

Answer 44

if he did not do this

Question 45

δὲ σὺν πόνῳ.

Answer 45

[he would master it] with difficulty.