Book 9

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...hand of his sister Gygaea to Bubares the Persian who was sent in search of the slaughtered envoys. Hence the present Ipyov irap&0oov is quite in keeping with the character of the man. C. 46. 4-e 'H&i i-e. that is the time fixed for the attack. 5. o-rrival = to take up a position. 7. eiveKa' iu.ets, cf. supr. 13. 12, note. 8. p.axiiv with imaraaBt--' mode of fighting.' 10. The Spartans at Thermopylae had all perished with the exception of Aristodemus (infr. c. 71), who remained at Alpeni suffering from ophthalmia, and took no part in the battle. 17. appuSto.v. imperf. without augment. Herodotus constantly uses the conjunctive after past tenses in the main clause. C. 47. 2-Tws, i. e. the morning of the twelfth day, from the arrival of the Greeks in their present or Second Position. 8. eirl Tov iruvup..ow, 'on the left,' supply a general word--iirote. C. 48. 7. es xe4"v vilxov dmKeo-9ai. Cf. viii. 89. 6 v xtipwv v&ptp airoWvp.evoi. The phrase seems to mean a hand to hand conflict. 8. For T&£iv tKXeCirovras, which is the common phrase for leaving the ranks or position, another reading is ariaw in. Cf. 21.9. 9. v 'A9nvaioKn.. The preposition as in the common iv Kapi & Kivsvvos. Ovroiis is of course 'yourselves.' 10. 8ovXuv are the Boeotians whom the Persians have enslaved. 17. dXX', cf. 42. 11. 20. Tc Ov... euaxecrap.e9a; this use of the aorjst, idiomatic in Attic, is not found elsewhere in Herodotus (Stein). The meaning is, ' why don't we at once?' Aesch. P. V. 747 Tt Ovk epptip' ip.iivrr/v; 21. iJcrrepoi, so as not to interfere with our conflict. BOOK IX. NOTES. CC. 48-51. 22. diroxpav, sc. SoKioi. fiets ti. For Si cf. snpr. 6. 3; infr. 85. 14, etc. 23. 8iap.axeo-il.e0a, 'fight it out,' Sm-as in SiaKeXevaapevoi, SiaSucaaia, diadpa...