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

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CXXXIV. This king, too, left a pyramid, but far smaller than his father's, each side twenty feet short of three hundred feet long, square at the base, and as much as half its height of Ethiopian stone. Some Greeks say that it was built by Rhodopis, the courtesan, but they are wrong; [2] indeed, it is clear to me that they say this without even knowing who Rhodopis was (otherwise, they would never have credited her with the building of a pyramid on which what I may call an uncountable sum of money was spent), or that Rhodopis flourished in the reign of Amasis, not of Mycerinus; [3] for very many years later than these kings who left the pyramids came Rhodopis, who was Thracian by birth, and a slave of Iadmon son of Hephaestopolis the Samian, and a fellow-slave of Aesop the story-writer. For he was owned by Iadmon, too, as the following made crystal clear: [4] when the Delphians, obeying an oracle, issued many proclamations summoning anyone who wanted it to accept compensation for the killing of Aesop, no one accepted it except the son of Iadmon's son, another Iadmon; hence Aesop, too, was Iadmon's.

Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 2 (general note)
book 2, chapter 134 (general note)
book 2, chapter 134, section 1: tetragônou
book 2, chapter 134, section 2: Hpodôpios
book 2, chapter 134, section 3: diedexe
book 2, chapter 134, section 4 (general note)

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
467: puramida de kai houtos apelipeto pollon elassô tou patros
1294: diedexe

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [1096-1210: Third episode]

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 Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
494 [b. Genetivi absoluti statt des bezüglichen Partizips im Nominative, Akkusative oder Dative.]
514 [Häufung der Negationen. — Überflüssige Negation.]
541 [Bemerkungen über den Gebrauch des ê und des Genetivs bei dem Komparative.]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
685 [Infinitive in Indirect Discourse.]
807 [Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with tou, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.]

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Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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