Section 8 (phrases)

Question 1

διεξελθόντες δὲ

Answer 1

And having passed through

Question 2

χῶρον πολὺν ψαμμώδη

Answer 2

a large sandy region

Question 3

καὶ ἐν πολλαῖς ἡμέραις

Answer 3

for many days,

Question 4

εἶδον δή ποτε δένδρα ἐν πεδίῳ πεφυκότα

Answer 4

they at last saw trees growing on a plain,

Question 5

καὶ προσελθόντες

Answer 5

and having gone forward

Question 6

ἥπτοντο

Answer 6

they began to pick

Question 7

τοῦ ἔποντος ἐπὶ τῶν δενδρῶν καρποῦ·

Answer 7

the fruit which was on the trees.

Question 8

ἁπτομένοις δὲ

Answer 8

But as they were picking

Question 9

αὐτοῖς ἐπῆλθον ἄνδρες σμικροὶ,

Answer 9

small men approached them

Question 10

μετρίων ἐλάττονες ἀνδρῶν

Answer 10

shorter than men of average height,

Question 11

λαβόντες δὲ

Answer 11

and these took

Question 12

ἦγον αὐτοῦς

Answer 12

and led them

Question 13

δι’ ἑλῶν μεγίστων

Answer 13

through very great marshes,

Question 14

καὶ διεξελθόντες ταῦτα

Answer 14

and having passed through these

Question 15

ἀφίκοντο εἰς πόλιν

Answer 15

they arrived at a city

Question 16

ἐν ᾗ πάντες

Answer 16

in which all

Question 17

ἦσαν ἴσοι τοῖς ἄγουσι τὸ μέγεθος

Answer 17

were equal in size to those leading them,

Question 18

χρῶμα δὲ μέλανες

Answer 18

and in colour black.

Question 19

παρὰ δὲ τὴν πόλιν

Answer 19

beside the city

Question 20

ἔρρει ποταμὸς μέγας

Answer 20

a great river flowed,

Question 21

ἔρρει δ’ ἀφ’ ἑσπέρας

Answer 21

and it flowed from the west

Question 22

πρὸς ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα

Answer 22

to the rising sun,

Question 23

ἐφαίνοντο δε ἐν αὐτῷ κροκόδειλοι.

Answer 23

and crocodiles appeared in it.

Question 24

ὁ μὲν δὴ τοῦ Ἀμμωνίου Ἐτεάρχου λόγος

Answer 24

Let the story of Etearchos the Ammonian

Question 25

εἰς τοῦτο μοι δεδηλώσθω

Answer 25

be set forth by me up to this point,

Question 26

πλὴν ὅτι ἀπονοστῆσαί τε ἔφη τοὺς Νασαμῶνας

Answer 26

except that he said both that the Nasamonians returned home,

Question 27

ὡς οἱ Κυρηναῖοι ἔλεγον

Answer 27

as the Cyrenaeans said,

Question 28

καὶ τοῦς ἀνθρώπους, εἰς οὓς οὗτοι ἀφίκοντο,

Answer 28

and that the men to whom these men had come

Question 29

γοήτας εἶναι ἅπαντες.

Answer 29

were all wizards

Question 30

τὸν δὲ δὴ ποταμὸν τοῦτον Ἐτέαρχος συνεβάλλετο εἶναι τὸν Νεῖλον.

Answer 30

And Etearchos reckoned that this river was indeed the Nile