Section 3 (sentences)

Question 1

τοῖς μὲν δὴ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἱεροί εἰσιν οἱ κροκόδειλοι, τοῖς δ’ οὒ, ἀλλ’ ἅτε πολεμίους περιέπουσι.

Answer 1

To some of the Egyptians crocodiles are sacred and to others they are not but they treat them as enemies.

Question 2

οἱ δὲ περί τε Θήβας καὶ τὴν Μοίρεως λίμνην οἰκουντες καὶ κάρτα ἡγοῦνται αὐτοὺς εἶναι ἱερούς.

Answer 2

Those who live around Thebes and Lake Moeris actually consider them to be very holy.

Question 3

ἕνα δὲ ἑκάτεροι τρέφουσι κροκόδειλον, δεδιδαγμένον εἶναι χειροήθη·

Answer 3

Each [community] raises one crocodile taught to be tame

Question 4

ἀρτήματα δὲ εἰς τὰ ὦτα ἐνθέντες καὶ ἀμφιδέας περὶ τοὺς προσθίους πόδας,

Answer 4

inserting ornaments into their ears and bracelets around their front feet

Question 5

καὶ σιτία ἀποτακτὰ διδόντες καὶ ἱερεῖα, περιέπουσιν ὡς κάλλιστα ζῶντας·

Answer 5

and giving them specially prepared food and animals for sacrifice they treat them as the noblest of living things

Question 6

ἀποθανόντας δὲ ταριχεύοντες θάπτουσιν ἐν ἱεραῖς θήκαις.

Answer 6

and when they die embalming them they bury them in holy tombs.

Question 7

οἱ δὲ περὶ Ἐλεφαντίνην πόλιν οἰκοῦντες καὶ ἐσθίουσιν αὐτοὺς, οὐχ ἡγούμενοι ἱεροὺς εἶναι.

Answer 7

But those who live around the city Elephantine actually eat them since they do not consider them to be holy.

Question 8

ἄγραι δἐ αὐτῶν πολλαὶ καθεστήκασι καὶ παντοῖαι· ἣ δ’ ἐμοί γε δοκεῖ ἀξιωτάτη ἀφηγήσεως εἶναι ταύτην γράφω·

Answer 8

Many and various methods of catching them have been established and the one which seems to me most worthy of narration, this one I write [here].

Question 9

ἐπειδὰν νῶτον ὑὸς δελεάσῃ τις περὶ ἄγκιστρον, μεθίησι εἰς μέσον τὸν ποταμόν·

Answer 9

Whenever someone puts the back of a hog [as bait] on a hook, he casts it into the middle of the river.

Question 10

αὐτὸς δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλους τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἔχων δέλφακα ζωὴν, ταύτην τύπτει.

Answer 10

And he himself on the banks of the river, having a living sow strikes her.

Question 11

ἐπακούσας δὲ τῆς φωνῆς ὁ κροκόδειλος ἵεται κατὰ τὴν φωνήν· ἐντυχὼν δὲ τῷ νώτῳ καταπίνει, οἱ δὲ ἕλκουσι.

Answer 11

The crocodile, having heard the noise heads towards the sound. and coming upon the pig-back swallows it down and they drag [it in].

Question 12

ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἐξελκυσθῇ εἰς γῆν, πρῶτον ἁπάντων ὁ θηρευτὴς πηλῷ κατέπλασεν αὐτοῦ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς·

Answer 12

Then, when it has been dragged out onto land first of all the hunter smears its eyes with mud;

Question 13

τούτο δὲ ποιήσας κάρτα εὐπετῶς τὰ λοιπὰ χειροῦται·

Answer 13

having done this he masters the rest very easily;

Question 14

μὴ ποιήσας δὲ σὺν πόνῳ.

Answer 14

if he did not do this [he would master it] with difficulty.