Section 6 (sentences)

Question 1

μέχρι μὲν τεττάρων μηνῶν πλοῦ καὶ ὁδοῦ γιγνώσκεται ὁ Νεῖλος, πάρεξ τοῦ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ῥεύματος.

Answer 1

The Nile is known as far as a voyage or journey of four months beyond the part which flows in Egypt.

Question 2

ῥεῖ δ’ ἀφ’ ἑσπέρας τε καὶ ἡλίου δυσμῶν.

Answer 2

It flows from the west and the setting of the sun.

Question 3

τὸ δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦδε οὐδεὶς ἔχει σαφῶς φράσαι· ἔρημος γάρ ἐστιν ἡ χώρα αὕτη ὑπὸ καύματος.

Answer 3

about the part after that no-one can speak clearly. for this land is desolate because of its heat.

Question 4

ἀλλὰ τάδε μὲν ἤκουσα ἀνδρῶν Κυρηναίων φαμένων ἐλθεῖν τε ἐπὶ Ἄμμωνος χρηστήριον

Answer 4

But I have heard the following from some Cyrenaeans who said that they had gone to an oracle of Ammon

Question 5

καὶ ἀφικέσθαι εἰς λόγους Ἐτεάρχῳ τῷ Ἀμμωνίων βασιλεῖ·

Answer 5

and came to have words with Etearchos king of the Ammonians

Question 6

καί πως ἐκ λόγων ἄλλων ἀφίκοντο ἐς λέσχην περὶ τοῦ Νείλου, ὡς οὐδεὶς οἶδε τὰς πηγὰς αὐτοῦ.

Answer 6

and in some way from other conversations they came to a discussion concerning the Nile, about how no-one knows its source.

Question 7

ὁ δὲ Ἐτέαρχος ἔφη ἐλθεῖν ποτε παρ’ ἑαυτὸν Νασαμῶνας ἄνδρας,

Answer 7

But Etearchus said that some Nasamonians once came to his court

Question 8

οἳ, ἐρωτώμενοι εἴ τι ἔχουσι πλέον λέγειν περὶ τῶν ἐρήμων τῆς Λιβύης,

Answer 8

who on being questioned if they were able to say anymore about the desert places of Libya,

Question 9

ἔφασαν παρ’ ἑαυτοῖς γενέσθαι ἀνδρῶν δυναστῶν παῖδας ὑβριστάς,

Answer 9

said that among them had been some violent sons of their chief men,

Question 10

οἳ ἄλλα τε μηχανῷντο ἀνδρωθέντες περιττὰ

Answer 10

who after they became men, contrived other excesses,

Question 11

καὶ δὴ καὶ ἀποκληρώσειαν πέντε ἑαυτῶν ὀψόμενους τὰ ἔρημα τῆς Λιβύης.

Answer 11

and in particular chose by lot five of them to [go and] see the deserted regions of Libya.