Ἀργυροῦν
of silver and of gold
Translated by Jennifer Benedict12 Aug 2001Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[*)argu/reon "of silver"] and xru/seon ["of gold"] [are] Ionic [words],1 but xru/seion ["golden"] [is] a possessive adjective. Thucydides [in book] one [writes]: "he had the use of the golden mines".2 Just as he says a)rgu/reia ["silver [mines]"] in the second [book]. "As far as Laurion, where the silver mines of the Athenians are."3