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commander Xanthippus resolved to stay there and make an attempt on the Chersonesus. The former, therefore, sailed away, but the Athenians, having crossed over from Abydos to Chersonesus, besieged Sestos. 115. To this Sestos, as being the strongest fortress in these parts, when they heard that the Greeks were arrived in the Hellespont, there came together men from other neighboring places, and among others ŒŒobazus, a Persian from Cardia, who had had all the materials of the bridges conveyed thither. Native Æolians occupied it, and there were with them Persians, and a great body of other allies. 116. Xerxes's viceroy Artayctes ruled over this district, a Persian wicked and impious, who had even deceived the king on his march to Athens by secretly taking away from Elæus the treasures of Protesilaus, son of Iphiclus; for in Elæus of the Chersonesus is a sepulchre of Protesilaus and a precinct around it, where were great treasures, both gold and silver vessels, and brass, and robes, and other offerings, which Artayctes plundered by permission of the king. By speaking as follows he deceived Xerxes: "Sire, there is here the habitation of a certain Grecian, who, having carried arms in your territories, met with a just punishment and perished. Give me this man's house, that every one may learn not to carry arms against your territory." By saying this he would easily persuade Xerxes to give him the man's house, as he had no suspicion of his intentions. He said that Protesilaus

had carried arms against the king's territory, thinking thus: the Persians consider that all Asia belongs to them and the reigning monarch. When, however, the treasures were granted, he carried them away from Elæus to Sestos, and sowed part of the precinct and pastured it, and whenever he went to Elæus, he used to lie with women in the sanctuary. At this time he was besieged by the Athenians, neither being prepared for a siege nor expecting the Greeks, so that they fell upon him somewhat unawares. 117. But when autumn came on, as they were engaged in the siege, and the Athenians were impatient at being absent from their own country, and not able to take the fortification, they besought their leaders to take them back; they, however, refused, until either they should take the place, or the people of Athens should recall them; accordingly, they acquiesced in the present state of things.

118. In the mean while, those who were within the fortification were reduced to the last extremity, so that they boiled and ate the cords of their beds; and when they had these no longer, then the Persians, and Artayctes, and Eobazus made their escape by night, descending by the back of the fortification, where it was most deserted by the enemy. When it was day, the Chersonesians from the towers made known to the Athenians what had happened, and opened the gates; and the greater part of them went in pursuit, but some took possession of the city. 119. As Eobazus was fleeing into Thrace, the Aspinthian Thracians seized him, and sacrificed him to Plistorus, a god of the country, according to their custom; but those who were with him they slaughtered in another manner. Those with Artayctes, who had taken to flight the last, when they were overtaken a little above Ægos-Potami, having defended themselves for a considerable time, some were killed, and others taken alive, and the Greeks, having put them in bonds, conveyed them to Sestos; and with them they took Artayctes bound, himself and his son. 120. It is related by the Chersonite that the following prodigy occurred to one of the guards as he was broiling salt fish; the salt fish lying on the fire leaped and quivered like fish just caught; and the persons who stood around were amazed; but Artayctes, when he saw the prodigy, having called the man who was broiling the salt fish, said, “ Athenian friend, be not afraid of this prodigy, for it has not appeared to you; but Protesilaus, who is in Elæus, intimates to me, that, though dead and salted, he has power from the gods to avenge himself on the person that has injured him. Now, therefore, I wish to make him reparation, and instead of the riches which I took out of his temple, to repay one hundred talents to the god; and for myself and my children, I will pay one hundred talents to the Athenians if I survive." By offering this, he did not persuade the general, Xanthippus; for the Elæans, wishing to avenge Protesilaus, begged that he might be put to death, and the mind of the general himself inclined that way. Having, therefore, conducted him to that part of the shore where Xerxes bridged over the pass, or, as others say, to a hill above the city of Madytus, they nailed him to a plank and hoisted him aloft, and his son they stoned before the eyes of Artayctes. . 121. Having done these things, they sailed back to Greece, taking

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with them other treasures and the materials of the bridges, in order to dedicate them in the temples; and during this year nothing more was done.

122. Artembares, the grandfather of this Artayctes who was hoisted aloft, was the person who originated a remark which the Persians adopted and conveyed to Cyrus, in these terms: "Since Jupiter has given the sovereign power to the Persians, and among men to you, O Cyrus, by overthrowing Astyages; as we possess a small territory, and that rugged, come, let us remove from this, and take possession of another, better. There are many near our confines, and many at a distance. By possessing one of these, we shall be more admired by most men; and it is right that those who bear rule should do so; and when shall we have a better opportunity than when we have the command of many nations, and of all Asia?" Cyrus having heard these words, and not admiring the proposal, bade them do so; but when he bade them, he warned them to prepare henceforward not to rule, but to be ruled over; for that delicate men spring from delicate countries, for that it is not given to the same land to produce excellent fruits and men valiant in war. So that the Persians, perceiving their error, withdrew and yielded to the opinion of Cyrus ; and they chose rather to live in a barren country and to command, than to cultivate fertile plains and be the slaves of others.

INDEX.

ABE, a city of Phocis, with a temple of
Apollo, i. 46; viii. 27, 83, 134.
Abantes, a people who migrated from Eu-
boea to lonia, i. 146.

Abaris, a Hyperborean, iv. 36.

Ea, a city of Colchis, i. 2; vii. 198, 197.
Eaces, son of Syloson, and father of Poly-
crates, iii. 39; vi. 13.

Eaces, son of Syloson, and tyrant of Sa
mos, iv. 138; vi. 13, 25.

Abdera, a town in Thrace, i. 168; vi. 46; acidæ, viii. 64.

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Eacus of Ægina, vi. 35.

Æga, a city of Pallene, vii. 123.
Egæ, in Achaia, i. 145.
Ægææ, a city of Æolis, i. 149.
Ægæan sea, iv. 85.

Egaleos, a mountain in Attica, viii. 90.

geus, son of Oiolycus, iv. 149.
Ægeus, son of Pandion, i. 173.
Ægialees, Pelasgians, vii. 94.
Ægialeus, son of Adrastus, v. 68.

Acanthus, a city of Macedonia, vi. 44; vii. Ægicores, son of Ion, v. 66.

116.

Acarnania, in Epirus, ii. 10.

Aceratus, a prophet at Delphi, viii. 37.
Aces, a river in Asia, iii. 117.
Achæans, twelve states of, i. 145; viii. 73.
Achæans, of Phthiotis, vii. 182, 197.
Achæmenes, son of Darius, iii. 12; vii. 7,
97, 236.

Achæmenes, father of Teispes, and ances-
tor of Darius, vii. 11.
Achæmenidæ, the royal family of the Per-
sians, i. 125; iii. 65.

Achaia, of the Peloponnesus, i. 145; of
Thessaly, vii. 173; viii. 36.

Achelous, a river of Ætolia, ii. 10; vii.
126.

Acheron, a river of Thesprotia in Epirus,
v. 92, (7.); viii. 47.

Achilleian Course, a district near the
Borysthenes in Scythia, iv. 55, 76.
Achilleium, a town near Sigeum in the
Troad, v. 94.

Acræphia, a city in Boeotia, viii. 135.
Acrisius, father of Danae, vi. 53.
Aerothoon, a town on Mount Athos, vii. 22.
Adicran, an African king, iv. 159.
Adimantus, father of Aristeas of Corinth,
vii. 137.

Adimantus, son of Ocytus of Corinth, viii.
5, 59, 61, 94.

Adrastus, son of Gordius, and grandson of

Midas, i. 35, 41, 43, 45.

Adrastus, king of Sicyon, v. 67, 68.

Adria, in Italy, i. 166; v. 9.

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Ægidæ, a tribe in Sparta, iv. 149.
Ægila, or Augila, in Libya, iv. 172.
Egileans, v. 68.

Ægilia, an island of the Styreans in Eu-
boa, vi. 107-in Eretria, vi. 101.
Ægina, daughter of Asopus, v. 80.
Ægina, the island of, viii. 41, 46.
Æginetæ, iii. 59; iv. 152; v. 80-89; vi.
49, 50, 73, 85, 92; vii. 145; viii. 46, 74,
93, 122; ix. 28, 79, 85.

Ægira, a city of Achaia, i. 145.
Ægiroessa, a city of Æolia, i. 149.
Ægis of Minerva, iv. 180, 189.
Ægium, a city of Achaia, i. 145.
Ægli, a people of Asia, iii. 92.
Ægos Potami, ix. 119.

Ægyra, a city of Achaia, i. 145.
Aeimnestus, a Spartan, ix. 68.
Enea, a town in Macedonia, vii. 123.
Enesidemus, son of Patacus and father of

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Adrimachidæ, a people of Libya, iv. 168. Aeropus, descendant of Temenus, viii. 137.

Esanius, father of Grinus, iv. 150.
Æschines, son of Nothon, vi, 100.
Æschreas, father of Lycomedes, viii. 11.
Æschrionians, a tribe in Samos, iii. 26.
Eschylus, the poet, ii. 156.
Æsop, the fabulist, ii. 134.

Æthiopia, ii. 22, 29, 100, 110; iii. 114.
Ethiopians, ii. 29, 30, 32, 104; iii. 17-25,
94, 97; iv, 183, 197; vii. 69, 70, 79.
Aetion, son of Echecrates, v. 92, (2.).
Ætolia, vi. 127.

Africa, ii. 26, 32; iv. 17, 41, 42. 44.
Libya.

See

Agæus, an Elian, father of Onomastus, vi.
127.

Agamemnon, i, 67; vii. 159.

Agarista, daughter of Clisthenes, vi. 126,
127, 130, 131.

Agarista, mother of Pericles, vi. 131.
Agasicles, of Halicarnassus, i. 144.
Agathyrsi, a Scythian people, iv. 49, 100,
102, 103, 125.

Agathyrsus, son of Hercules, iv. 10.
Agbalus, father of Merbalus, vii. 98.

Agbatana, see Ecbatana.

Aleium, a plain of Cilicia. vi. 95.
Aletes, v. 92, (2.).

Aleuadæ, Thessalian chiefs, vii. 6, 180
172; ix. 58.

Alexander, king of Macedonia, v. 19, 20,
22; vii. 137, 173; viii. 121, 186, 189, 140;
ix. 44, 45.

Alexander, son of Priam, i. 3; ii. 113-117.
Alilat, Arabian Urania, iii. 8.

Alitta, the Venus of the Arabians, ii. 131.
Alopecæ, a village in Attica, v. 63.
Alpeni, a town near Thermopylæ, vii. 176,
229.

Alpheus, and Maron, vii. 227.

Alpis, a river falling into the Ister, iv. 49.
Alus, a city of Thessaly, vii. 178, 197.
Alyattes, king of Sardis, i. 16—22, 25, 73,
74, 91, 92.

Amasis, king of Egypt, i. 30, 77, 181; ii.
154, 161-163, 169, 172-176, 178, 181,
182; iii. 1, 10, 16, 39-43, 47.

Amasis, a Persian general, iv. 167, 201,

203.

Amathus, a city of Cyprus, v. 104-108.
Amathusians, v. 104, 114.

Agenor, father of Cilix, a Phoenician, vii. Amazons, in Scythia, iv. 110-117, 193;
91.

Agesilaus, son of Doryssus, vii, 204.

Agesilaus, son of Hippocratides, viii. 131.
Agetus, son of Alcides, vi. 61, 62.
Agis, father of Menares, vi. 65.
Agis, king of Sparta, vii. 204.

Aglauros, daughter of Cecrops, viii. 53.
Aglomachus, of Cyrene, iv. 164.
Agora, a town of Thrace, vii. 58.
Agrianes, v. 16.

Agrianis, a river of Thrace, iv. 90.
Agrigentines, a people of Italy, vii. 170.
Agron, king of Sardis, i. 7.
Agyllæans, i. 167.

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Ajax, father of Philæus, vi. 35.

Ajax, son of Telamon, v. 66; viii. 64, 121.
Alabanda, a city of Phrygia, viii. 136.
Alabandians, a people of Caria, vii. 195.
Alalia, a city of Corsica, i. 165.

Alarodians, a people of Pontus, iii. 94;
vii. 79.

Alazir, king of Barca, iv. 164.
Alazones, a Scythian nation, iv. 17, 52.
Alcæus, the poet, v. 95.

Alcæus, son of Hercules, i. 7.

Alcamenes, son of Telecles, vii. 204.
Alcetes, father of Amyntas, viii. 39.
Alcibiades, father of Clinias, viii. 17.
Alcides, father of Agetus, vi. 61.
Alcimachus, father of Euphorbus, vi. 101.
Alcinor and Chromius, Argives, i. 82.
Alcmæon, father of Megacles, i. 59.
Alcmæon, son of Megacles, vi. 125, 127.
Alemæonidæ, the, i. 61, 64; v. 63, 66, 69-
73; vi. 121-131.

Alcmena, mother of Hercules, ii. 43, 145.
Alcon, a Molossian, vi. 127.
Aleades, v. Cleades.

Alea Minerva, a temple of Tegea, i. 66;
ix. 70.

ix. 27.

Amestris, wife of Xerxes, vii. 61, 114; ix.
108, 111.

Amiantus, vi. 127.

Amilcar, king of Carthage, vii. 165–167.
Aminias, an Athenian captain, viii. 84, ST.
93.

Aminocles of Sepias, vii. 190.

Amitres, or Ithamitres, a Persian general,
viii. 130.

Ammon, a Libyan oracle, i. 46; ii. 82, 55.
Ammonians, a Libyan people, ii. 32, 42;
iii. 25, 26; iv. 181, 185.

Amompharetus, a Spartan, ix. 53-57, 71,
85.

Amorges a Persian general, i. 121.
Ampe, a city on the Red Sea, vi. 20.
Ampelus, a promontory of Torone, vii. 122.
Amphiaraus, father of Amphilochus, iii.
91.

Amphiaraus, his oracular temple at Thebes,
i. 46, 49, 52; viii. 134.

Amphicæ, a city of Phocis, viii. 33.
Amphicrates, king of Samos, iii. 59.
Amphictyons, seat and council of, ii. 180;
v. 62; vii. 208, 213, 228.

Amphilochus, son of Amphiaraus, iii. 91;
vii. 91.

Amphilytus, a seer, i. 62.

Amphimnestus, of Epidamnus, vi. 127.
Amphion, of Corinth, v. 92.
Amphipolis, v. 126; vii. 114.

Amphissa, a city of the Locrians, viii. 32.
Amphitryon, father of Hercules, ii. 45; v.
59; vi. 53.

Ampracia, a city of Epirus, viii. 47; ix.
28, 31.

Amyntas, son of Alcetas, v. 17-21, 94; vii.
173; viii. 136, 139.

Amyntas, son of Bubares, viii. 136.

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