Monday, February 14, 2022

 

European Union

Herodotus 7.8c.2 (Xerxes speaking; tr. A.D. Godley):
No land that the sun beholds will border ours, but I will make all into one country, when I have passed over the whole of Europe.

οὐ γὰρ δὴ χώρην γε οὐδεμίαν κατόψεται ἥλιος ὅμουρον ἐοῦσαν τῇ ἡμετέρῃ, ἀλλὰ σφέας πάσας ἐγὼ ἅμα ὑμῖν μίαν χώρην θήσω, διὰ πάσης διεξελθὼν τῆς Εὐρώπης.
The Greek text at the Perseus Digital Library mistakenly omits μίαν (screen capture taken today):

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