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    Herodotus, The Histories

    Editions and translations: Greek | English (ed. A. D. Godley)
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    XCVII. nomizousi de tauta kai diabeblêmenoisi es tous Persas, en toutôi* dê tôi kairôi* ho Milêsios Aristagorês, hupo Kleomeneos tou Lakedaimoniou exelastheis ek tês Spartês, apiketo es Athênas: hautê gar hê polis tôn loipeôn edunasteue megiston. epelthôn de epi ton dêmon ho Aristagorês tauta elege ta kai en têi Spartêi peri tôn agathôn tôn en têi Asiêi kai tou polemou tou Persikou, hôs oute aspida oute doru nomizousi eupetees te cheirôthênai eiêsan. [2] tauta te dê elege kai pros toisi+ tade, hôs hoi Milêsioi tôn Athênaiôn eisi apoikoi*, kai oikos spheas eiê rhuesthai dunamenous mega: kai ouden ho ti ouk hupischeto hoia karta deomenos, es ho anepeise spheas. pollous gar oike einai eupetesteron diaballein ê hena*, ei Kleomenea men ton Lakedaimonion mounon ouk hoios te egeneto diaballein, treis* de muriadas* Athênaiôn epoiêse touto. [3] Athênaioi men dê anapeisthentes epsêphisanto eikosi neas aposteilai boêthous Iôsi, stratêgon apodexantes autôn einai Melanthion andra tôn astôn eonta ta panta dokimon: hautai+ de hai nees+ archê+ kakôn*+ egenonto+ Hellêsi+ te kai barbaroisi+.


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    Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    book 5 (general note)
    book 5, chapter 97 (general note)
    book 5, chapter 97 (general note)

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    473 [b) Infinitiv ohne Artikel als Ergänzung von Satzgliedern und Sätzen.]

    Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
    8, 72, 2

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    * [Persian Intaglio Cylinder. (Dieulafoy.)]

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    Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
    OCLC: 1610641
    ISBN: 0674991303, 0674991311, 0674991338, 0674991346

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