# Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 2.16.6

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις, Book 2, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/arrian/text/2.16.6

οἶδα δὲ ἐγὼ καὶ εἰς τοῦτο ἔτι εὔβοτον τὴν ἤπειρον ταύτην καὶ βοῦς τρέφουσαν καλλίστας· καὶ ἐς Εὐρυσθέα τῶν μὲν ἐξ Ἠπείρου βοῶν κλέος ἀφῖχθαι καὶ τοῦ βασιλέως τῆς Ἠπείρου τὸ ὄνομα τὸν Γηρυόνην οὐκ ἔξω τοῦ εἰκότος τίθεμαι· τῶν δὲ ἐσχάτων τῆς Εὐρώπης Ἰβήρων οὔτʼ ἂν τοῦ βασιλέως τὸ ὄνομα γιγνώσκειν Εὐρυσθέα, οὔτε εἰ βοῦς καλαὶ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ταύτῃ νέμονται, εἰ μή τις τὴν Ἥραν τούτοις ἐπάγων, ὡς αὐτὴν ταῦτα Ἡρακλεῖ διʼ Εὐρυσθέως ἐπαγγέλλουσαν, τὸ οὐ πιστὸν τοῦ λόγου ἀποκρύπτειν ἐθέλοι τῷ μύθῳ.

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Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις, ed. A. G. Roos. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0074.tlg001.local001/.