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

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    CIV. With these sons he sent Hermotimus as guardian. This man was by birth of Pedasa, and the most honored by Xerxes of all his eunuchs. The people of Pedasa dwell above Halicarnassus. The following thing happens among these people: when anything untoward is about to befall those who dwell about their city, the priestess of Athena then grows a great beard. This had already happened to them twice.


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    Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    book 8 (general note)
    book 8, chapter 104 (general note)
    book 8, chapter 104: pheromenon ... ou ta deutera

    Further comments from Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary:
    book 8 (general note)
    book 8, chapter 104 (general note)
    book 8, chapter 104: Hermotimon
    book 8, chapter 104: genos
    book 8, chapter 104: pheresthai ta deutera
    book 8, chapter 104: eunouchoi
    book 8, chapter 104: hoi de Pêdasees &#ch2014; egeneto

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    * [1. amphi with the Genitive]: hoi amphi tautês oikeontes tês polios

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    436 [1) Amphi und peri.]

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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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