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 10 MiA,TtaS77. TlvOir) ovk ea, (j)daa ov Tcfiovv elvai tt]v alrirjv TOVTCOV, aXA.a Setv yap MiA,Tia8ea T€\evrdv pby ev, (^avrjvai ol 136 tS)v KaKwv Kar'iqy&p.ova. HapioLo-L p,ev ravra rj HvdLrj €')^pr]a€‘ A-OrjvaloL Be ck TLdpov yiCkrudBea dTrovoaTrjaavra ea'^ov ev cTTop,aaL ol re dWoL kol p,d\iaTa ^dv6i7r7ro<; 6 'Kpu(^povo<i, 6? Oavdrov virayaydiv vtto rov Brjpiov yUXridBea iBicoKe rr}<i AOrj- 5 vaucov dirdry}^ eiveKev. Be avTO<i piev irapeoav ovk divekoyeeTO’ yap dBvvaro<i ware arjiropLevov rov pLTjpov' Trpo- Keipbevov Be avrov iv kXlvtj vjrepaTreXoyeovro ol ^lXol, Trj<; pid'^rjf; T6 T^9 iv ALapa6d)VL yevopLevTjfi ttoXXol iTrtpLepLvrjpLevoi Kal r^v Arjpivov aipeatv, a>9 eXcov Arjpuvov re Kal rio‘dpLevo<; rovf; IleXa- lo cTfyov9 TrapeBcoKe ^AdrjvaioLaL. TrpocryevopLevov Be rov Brjpbov avr(p 11. Seiv “yap. Cp. 4. 79 su])ra. And further, 7. 17 for a parallel or com- ment to the present case : oHre is t6 /MeriireLTa oUts is rb srapavrlKa vvv Kara- irpot^eaL airorpamov rb %pe6i' yevicrdai. To have punished the human agent after the event might be regarded as equivalent to attempting to prevent or avert its occurrence. On the formula, which here is adopted by, or from, Delphi, cp. Introduction, § 22, pp. cxii if. <j)avfjvai. Rawlinson renders “she was sent” ; Macaulay, “she had ap- peared.” Stein points out the true meaning, viz. that a (pdafia, apparition, in the shape of Timo, had misled Milti- ades. Cp. 4. 15 (where Delphi en- dorses the credentials of a (pdcrp.a) and cc. 69, 117 supra for other (pdap-ara. The subject is KaTTjyepdva, cp. Karriyri- traro supra. riyepovls is the proper feminine of ijyepdliv, but is not used of persons, while ■pyepbvt] is a divine title. (Cp. L. & S. suh vv.) 136. 2. ’A0Tivaioi. Hdt. recurs here obviously to Athenian tradition: the Parians would be no authorities on the story of the trial. 3. HavOi-mros. We may infer from this passage that (1) Xanthippos was the accuser ; (2) the impeachment was diraT'qcreus tov drjpov: cp. Meier and Schomann, Der Attische Process, p. 344. (It was a variety of the ypa.<p^] irpodoalas. At least such would have been its later title.) (3) The procedure was by an elaayyeKla {virb rbv brjpov), cp. c. 104 supra, and the reference to Plato infra. 6. <rt]wo|i^vou, cp. a-tpaKeXlaavTbs re TOV prjpov Kal aatrivTos infra. How his limb should have mortified from a sprain {airaa-drivai c. 134) it is not easy to understand, though the same diffi- culty does not attend the case of Kam- byses (3. 66 iatpaKiXLai re rb oariov Kal b pripbs . . ia-dTTt}), who was wounded. Hence the significance of the Scholion (quoted by Baehr, note to c. 134) to Aristid. p. 218, to the effect that Milti- ades was wounded in the thigh by a dart, launched by an unseen hand, which struck him as he was besieging Paros. Cp. C. Nepos, c. 7 ( = Ephoros) aeger erat vulneribus, quae in oppug- nando oppido acceperat. Cp. Appendix XI. § 3. 7. ot (|>^Xoi. It would be interest- ing to know their names. Cornelius Nepos has : verba pro eo fecit frater eius Tisagoras, c. 7. His brother ySiesagoras predeceased him, c. 38 supra. The omission of his service at the Istros is noticeable (cp. 4. 137 supra). That, however, was not a direct service to Athens, and had besides already done duty on a similar occasion perhaps, cp. c. 104 supra. His acquisition of Lem- nos might have been expected to have served also at the previous trial. It is just possible that the reference to it here is unhistorical, and introduced by Hdt. as a peg on which to hang the story of the Athenian acquisition of Lemnos. Ed. Meyer, Forschungen, p. 16, even suggests that it was, perhaps, Miltiades Cypseli who first acquired Lemnos (for Peisistratos), in which case the achievement can hardly have done duty at either trial of Miltiades Cimonis: but the suggestion is unverifiable.