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 XapL^ofievoi, eTTOurja-av roLovBe. /xefju^ofMevoL rolai AOrivaioLaL koX 5 a^iovvre<i ahuceea-Qai, o)? TL/xwprjcroijLevoL rov<i 'Adr]valov<; irap- ecTKeva^ovTO' Kai r)v ’yap rotai ^AdrjvaloLai 7revrerr]p\<; eirl tovvlcp, Xoxwavre’i [mv] r^v OewpiBa via elXov TrXrjpea avBpSiv 88 Tcov TrpojTwv A6rjvaio)v, \a^ovre<i Be rov<; dvBpa<; eBrjaav. ^A6r)- valoL Be 7ra6ovre<i ravra 7rpo<; AlyiVTjreoov ovtcerL dve^dWovro purj ov TO irdv p^TjxavrjcracrOaL eir Ai'yLvrjTrjaL. koX ^v yap Nt/co8po/xo9 }^vol8ov Ka\eofievo<; ev rj) Alylvp dv^p BoKLpLO<;, ovTO<i p,ep,(f)6pievo’} 5 p>€V Tolau AiyLVTjT'pcn TrpoTeprjV ecovrov e^eXacnv iK ri]’} vrjaov, fMadojv Be Tore rov<> ^A0r]valov<i dvapTrjpbevov^ epBecv Alyiv'pTa’i KaKM’i, (TVVTiderab AOrjvaLOLcn vrpoBocriTjv AlyLvrj<;, (j)pd(ra<i ev Trj re r)p,eprj eTTtxeipTjo-eL Kal eKeLvov^ e? t^v rjKeLv Beijcrec j3or)6eovra<i. 89 p>era ravTa KaTcCKapb^dvei fj,ev Kara to, crvved'qKaTO ^AB'pvaloia'i 0 Ni/coSpo/xo? ryv iraXai^v Ka\eop,ev7jv ttoXlv, 'AOrjvatoi Se ov irapayivovTaL e? Beov' ov yap ervxov eovaai vee<; (t<^l d^iopbaxoi' supra, c. 506 B.c. The terms here employed seem to put the Aiginetans wholly in the wong. The story is probably of Attic origin. 5. d8iK€«o-0ai. The implicit assump- tion here is certainly that the adida, of which the Aiginetans complain, is the refusal of the Athenians to restore the hostages. It would be a wonder that, if these hostages were in Athens, the Athenians did not exchange them for their own leading citizens captured in the Theoris. They probably did, Cp. Appendix VIII. § 5. 6. '7revT€TT|p^s. The MSS. have tt€v- TTipyjs. Schomann’s emendation is con- firmed by R. Van Herwerden corrects to irevTaerripls. There was a temple of Athene on Sunion (Pausan. 1. 1 ad init.) and there may have been a quadrennial festival held there {vevUTfKa 5k rpiripei p.kv apLOO^kbp-evos irrl Xovrlcp, Lysias, 21. 5). That the Athenians had a quin- quereme at this date is incredible. The first quinquereme was not built at Athens until after the date of the ’A6r]valwv iroXireLa. Cp. op. cit. ed. Sandys, c. 46, p. 169 n. £v seel. Stein. 88. 2. ovK€Ti dvepdXXovTO, 5. 49. The wording here looks like an unconscious reference to the oracle there, and serves to bring the oracle down. Cp. Appen- dix VIII. § 3. |j.f| ov. Cp. Madvig, Qk. Syntax, § 211 a, Goodwin, Moods and Tenses, § 95, 2. rb pr) ov pyx- would have been good Greek (cp. 5. 62 supra irav pyx^-vu- pevoi), but the article here must be taken with ivav. Cp. 5. 49 supra, dva- pdWopai viroKpLykeadaL. 5. €^€'Xao-LV. Wherefore was Niko- dromos exiled ? Had he too aimed at tyranny ? The road thereto might lead through demagogy and ‘ Atticism. ’ His second offence, if not his first, was ‘popular,’ cp. c. 91 infra. One could wish to have light on the relation of his policy to the treatment of the Attic prisoners, who had, however, been exchanged long before. Cp. Ap- pendix VIII. § 5. 7. ev rfj T€ , . Kal . . Is ti^v. Stein regards these words as referring to two different days. It is more likely that Hdt.’s grammar is clumsy than that the conspiracy was so much disjointed. You may name the day for a coup d'itat, but how can you say how long you will hold out afterwards ? The Athenians were surely to he on the spot the verj' day of the democratic 6meute. Such miscarriages are not uncommon. Cp. Thucyd. 4. 89 for a celebrated instance. 89. 3. ov ydp ^tv^ov ktX. This is an astounding statement, unless it is to be supposed that Athenian vessels were absent on foreign service just at the time when they were needed to assist Mkodromos. The only foreign services which could come into the reckoning, on any hypothesis, would be (1) the expedition to Ionia in 498 B.c. See 5. 97, 99. (2) The expedition to Paros, e. 489 B.C., cc. 132 ff. infra. The latter