Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)

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CXXIX. When the appointed day came for the marriage feast and for Cleisthenes' declaration of whom he had chosen out of them all, Cleisthenes sacrificed a hundred oxen and gave a feast to the suitors and to the whole of Sicyon. [2] After dinner the suitors vied with each other in music and in anecdotes for all to hear. As they sat late drinking, Hippocleides, now far outdoing the rest, ordered the flute-player to play him a dance-tune; the flute-player obeyed and he began to dance. I suppose he pleased himself with his dancing, but Cleisthenes saw the whole business with much disfavor. [3] Hippocleides then stopped for a while and ordered a table to be brought in; when the table arrived, he danced Laconian figures on it first, and then Attic; last of all he rested his head on the table and made gestures with his legs in the air. [4] Now Cleisthenes at the first and the second bout of dancing could no more bear to think of Hippocleides as his son-in-law, because of his dancing and his shamelessness, but he had held himself in check, not wanting to explode at Hippocleides; but when he saw him making gestures with his legs, he could no longer keep silence and said, “son of Tisandrus, you have danced away your marriage.” Hippocleides said in answer, “It does not matter to Hippocleides!” Since then this is proverbial.

Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 6 (general note)
book 6, chapter 129 (general note)
book 6, chapter 129, section 1: tês ... kataklisios
book 6, chapter 129, section 2: es to meson
book 6, chapter 129, section 2: katechôn
book 6, chapter 129, section 2: emmeleian
book 6, chapter 129, section 3: schêmatia
book 6, chapter 129, section 3: alla
book 6, chapter 129, section 4: ge men

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
410 [b) Akkusativ bei intransitiven und passiven Verben und Adjektiven).]

Cross references from Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns:
* [HYMN TO HERMES]

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 84, 3

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
5, 84 [esti and eisi:]

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
Lysias, 10, 9 [Kata Theomnêstou]

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