Volume 1

Herodotus : the fourth, fifth, and sixth books / With introduction, notes, appendices, indices, maps by Reginald Walter Macan.

  • Herodotus
Date:
1895
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    VI av e^T]ye7)TaL, Kal koX h Ncoya/c/Jtv ttoXlv 'rrpoOvfio^ yv rwv A.pKaB(ov TOv<i 7rpoe<7T€a)Ta<i ayivecov e^opKOvv to ^Tvyo<; vBoip, €v Be ravry tj} ttoXl Xeyerat elvat vrro rSiv 'ApKaBcov to ^Tvyof: vB(Op, KCLU Brj KCLi eCTTL TOLOvBe Tl' vBcOp oXiyOV (pULVOpbeVOV €K 10 7reTp7}<; aTa^ei e? ayKO^, to B^ ayKO<; alpiaaLrjf; rt? irepiOeet kvkXo<^. 7] Be ^(ovaKpL'i, ev Trj ‘p Trrjy^ avTrj Tvyyavei eovaa, 75 TToXt? ecTTt Trj<} ApKaBi7)<; 7rpo<i Severn. pbad6vTe<; Be*K.Xeopievea AatceBaLp^ovLOL TavTa irpijcraovTa, KaTrjyov avTov BeLcravTe<i eirl Tolai avTolcn e? %7rdpTrjv Tolau Kal TrpOTepov KaTeXOovTa Be avTov avTLKa vireXa/Se p,avL7) vov(to<;, eovTa Kal irpoTepov 5 virop,apyoTepov' okco<; yap rew evTv^oc %'irapTLrjTewv, eve'^pave C9 TO irpoacoTTOv to crKrjirTpov. 'iroteovTa Be avTov TavTa Kal Trapa- (fipov'po-avTa eBrjcrav ol TrpoarjKovTe^ ev ^vXw' 6 Be Be6eh tov (pvXaKov pbovvcoOevTa IBcbv twv dXXcov aWeeb pbd'^abpav' ov /SovXopuevov Be to, TrpoiTa tov (fivXdKov BiBovau direiXee Td pbuv lo avTL<i 'TOL'paeL, e? o BeLaa<i ra? direuXa'i 6 (f>vXaKo<; {^v yap tq)v TL<i elXcoTecov) BlBoI ol pbd'^abpav. KXeoyu.ei'?;? 8e TrapaXa^oiv tov aLBrjpov dp-^eTo Ik tmv Kvripuewv ecovTov Xco^copbevo'^' iTTbTdfivcov yap KaTa pbrjKO^ Ta<i (rdpKa<; irpoe/Saive eK t&v Kvrjpbecov i<; tov<; pbrjpov<i, 6K Be TOiV pbrjpcov e? re Ta ia-^La Kal Ta<; Xa7rdpa<;, e? o e? ;i5 T^v yacTTepa aTiKeTO, Kal TavTrjv KaTa'^opBevcov uTredave Tpoirw TOLOVTbp, ft)? puev ol TToXXol Xeyovau ^^XXrjvcav, otl t^v Uv6l7]v 6. NwvttKpiv. Far to the north of Arkadia in the district of Azania (cp. c. 127 infra), the home of Arkadian in- dependence. There at the tomb of Aipytos, first king of the land, was perhaps the focus for a confederation (cp. Tliad 2. 603-614), which Kleomenes now sought to revive in an anti-Dorian and anti-Spartan interest. Cp. E. Curtins, Peloponnesos, i. p. 163, and History of Greece, E. T. ii. p. 205. 9. Kal 8^| Kal ^oti TOidvoe ti. Hdt. wites almost as if he had been in Nonakris, though the critical X^yerai (cp. 4. 184) may infect Jthe whole sentence, and he by no means describes the waterfall of the Styx in adequate terms. Cp. the autopsy of Pausanias, 8. 17, 5, 18. 2, and for modern refer- ences, Rawlinson, note ad 1. Add Wordsworth’s Greece, ed. Tozer, p. 384 ; Curtius, Peloponnesos, i. 195 ; Bursian, Gcogr. v. Grieehenland, ii. 202. Van Herwerden reforms the text by omitting 7t6Xcj/ and rb hrvybs iidwp first time, and inserting re after X^yerat. 76. 2. Iirl Toio-i ktX. The words sup- port the view that the royal institution at Sparta was based on a contract. Cp. c. 52 supra. 4. avT^Ka. He did not long survive his return. 5. tnropapydrcpov. In 5. 42 supra he has been described as oi <ppevi)p7)s aKpoyavijs re even before his accession. 6. xb o-KTprrpov. His badge of ofllce. Cp. Iliad 2. 100-108. 7. 'irpocr'<)KovT£s. Cp. c. 57 supra {robs yaXiaTa cr(f)L . . Trpoo'^/coi'ras). But is it credible that relatives could attach the king’s person, without intervention of Ephors or Gerusia ? TOV 4>tiXaKov. This single helot, left to guard the mad king in the stocks, must have reported the con- versation, but not till all was over ^vith Kleomenes. XVith some of the details, cp. the story of Hegesistratos 9. 37. (On the form (pbXaKos cp. L. & S.) 15. d'rr^Oavc Tpbira) toiovtw. There was apparently no doubt anyndiere entertained that Kleomenes died by his