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 ^ovXevfxa, dl fiereTre/j^TrovTo fxev 'K6r\vaiov<;, i(f>p6v€ov Be BL(f)aaLa<; iBea<;. ot fiev yap avrSiv e/SovXevovTO eKXcTreLV r^v ttoXlv e’9 ra aKpa ^v/3oL7j<}, aWot Be avTOiv iBia KepBea irpoaBetcopjevoi, 10 Trapa tov TLepcreco otaecrOav TrpoBoairjv ecTKevd^ovro. pLaOoiv Be TOVTCov eKarepa o)? 0 No^coyo?, eoiv ron> ’Eperptecoi/ ra irpSiTa, (f>pa^eL toIctl '^kovo'l ^AOrjvaicov Trdvra ra rrapeovra TTpTjyp^ara, irpocreBeero re aTraWdacreadai a(f>ea<; €9 r^v a^ereprjv, iva p,rj irpocraTroXcovraL. ot Be 'AOrjvatot ravra Aia'^ivp 101 <7vp,^ov\evaavTi 'irelOovrat, Kal ovrot jMev Bta^dvre<i e9 'flpcorrov ecrco^ov atj^ea^; avrov<i‘ ot Be Tlepcrat 'ir\eovre<i Karecr^ov Ta<i vea^ tt}9 EperptKrj<; X^PV'i Kara Teptevo<} Kal Xotpea^; Kal AlytXea, Kara- axovre<i Be ravra ra avrtKa Xirirov^ re i^e^dWovro Kal 5 TrapeaKevd^ovro 009 'Trpoaotaoptevot rotcrt exBpolcn. oi Be ’Eperptee<f eiTe^eXdelv ptev koX ptaxecraaBat ovk errotevvro /SovXijv, et k(o^ Be Bta(f)vXd^atev ra reix^a, rovrov acfjt Trept epteXe, eTretre ivUa pt^ had met his reward. This Gongylos may have been to Eretria what Hippias was to Athens. But if Xenophon 1. c. is accurate, the Gongylos there men- tioned as alive in 399 B.c. cannot have medized in 490 B.c., much less previ- ously. If Blakesley’s suggestion is correct, that the Gongylos of Xenophon is grandson of the Gongylos who first medized, then Xenophon has expressed himself very inaccurately. That indeed is not unlikely. Thucydides, 1. 126, mentions a Gongylos of Eretria as an internuntius between Pausanias and the great king in 477-6 b.c. This might be the original traitor, whom Xenophon has confounded with his son or grand- son. As he is not here named by Hdt. we may suppose that he had already fled to the Medes, and was perhaps now in the suite of Datis or of Hippias. 7. ouj>acrfas ISeas. It is providential that these Eretrians are finally to be quartered in the neighbourhood of a well t6 Trap^x^raL Tpi.cj>a<rLas id^as, c. 119 infra. The criticism in this chapter is unsound. There are two parties in Eretria, the party for taking to the mountains, the party for surrender and medism. (There is, indeed, a third IMa—the one righteous man, Aischines.) The medizing party has its way, and yet the city instead of surrendering stands a siege, and that no make - believe, six days. Duncker, vii.® 118 n., thinks that Hdt.’s source of information was the exiled Eretrians on the Tigris. But cp. note c. 119 infra. 12. TO, TrpwTa. Cp. 9. 77 and Kueh- ner, Ausf. Qr. § 362. 101. 1. ’HpcoTTOv : dTT^et 5^ pAXiara 6 ’flpwTris T7]s tG>v ’Eperpi^uv -irdXeus 6a\d(r- arjs fiirpov e^'rjKovra aradLovs, Thuc. 8. 95, 3. That was the new Eretria (Strabo, 448). Oropos, the Attic port for Euboea, cp. Thuc. 7. 28, 1, beyond the natural frontier of Attica, had been annexed, perhaps, at the time of the war with the Boeotians, 5. 77 supra, for it was not one of the demi (cp. 5. 74 supra). Cp. c. 108 infra. 3. Tcpcvos, so the MSS. but. Valc- kenaer’s conjecture Hap.ivas is to be preferred. Cp. Strabo, 448 iv Sh rrj ^perpiicrj ttoXis 9jp Td/iwat irXTjcrlov tov iropdpov. The other places probably dependent villages, cp. Baehr’s note. 4. ^inrovs, the penultimate reference to the Persian cavalry, cp. c. 102 infra. If h ravra (PR) is not correct then Kariaxop and Kararxipres are used in different senses. 7. 6vfKa pi) eKkiireiv Ti|v iroXiv. This decision might in itself explain the retreat of the Athenians ; or the retreat of the Athenians might have necessitated this decision, without re- course to the hypothesis of treachery. In the case of Athens, indeed, the danger of treachery is used as an argu- ment for risking an engagement, c. 109 infra. But then Athens was probably not in a position to stand a siege.