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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

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, 33, 134.
Abantes, a people who migrated from Eu-
boea to Ionia, i. 146.

Abaris, a Hyperborean, iv. 86.

Æa, a city of Colchis, i. 2; vii. 198, 197.
Eaces, son of Syloson, and father of Poly-
crates, iii. 89; 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.
vii. 109, 126; viii. 120.

Abrocomes, son of Darius, vii. 224.

Abronychus, an Athenian, son of Lysicles,
viii. 21.

Abydoni, the, vii. 44.

Abydos, a city on the Asiatic side of the
Hellespont, where Xerxes threw over
the bridge of boats, v. 117; vii. 32, 33,
34, 43, 174.

Acanthians, the, vii. 22, 117.

Eacus of Ægina, vi. 35.
Æga, a city of Pallene, vii. 123.
Egæ, in Achaia, i. 145.
Egææ, a city of Æolis, i. 149.
Egæan 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. 67.
Aces, a river in Asia, iii. 117.

Achæans, twelve states of, i. 145; viii. 73.
Achæans, of Phthiotis, vii. 132, 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.
Acrothoon, 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. 163; v. 9.

Adrimachidæ, a people of Libya, iv. 168.

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.
Ænea, a town in Macedonia, vii. 123.
Ænesidemus, son of Patacus and father of
Theron, vii. 154, 165.

Enus, a city of Thrace, iv. 90; vii. 58.
Enyra, a district of Thrace, vi. 47.
Eolia, a region of Asia Minor, v. 123.
Æolian cities, i. 149, 151; viii. 35.
Eolians, i. 6, 26, 28, 141; ii. 1, 90; v. 94,
122; vii. 95; ix. 115.

Æolis, vii. 176.

Eolus, father of Athamas, vii. 197.
Eorpata, or Oiorpata, Scythian name of
the Amazons, iv. 110.

Aeropus, father of Echemus, ix. 26.
Aeropus, father of Alcetas and son of
Philip, viii. 139.

Aeropus, descendant of Temenus, viii. 137.

Esanius, father of Grinus, iv. 150.
Æschines, son of Nothon, vi, 100.
schreas, father of Lycomedes, viii. 11.
Æschrionians, a tribe in Samos, iii. 26.
Eschylus, the poet, ii. 156.
Æsop, the fabulist, ii. 134.
Ethiopia, ii. 22, 29, 100, 110; iii. 114.
Æthiopians, ii. 29, 60, 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.

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Agæus, an Elian, father of Onomastus, vi.

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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, 178; viii. 121, 166, 139, 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. 181.
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. 181.
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.

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.
Alemæon, father of Megacles, i. 59.
Alcmæon, son of Megacles, vi. 125, 127.
Alcmæonidæ, 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, 87,
93.

Aminocles of Sepias, vii. 190.

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

Ammon, a Libyan oracle, i. 46; ii. 32, 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. 83.
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.

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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. 43; v.
59; vi. 53.

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

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

Amyntas, son of Bubares, viii. 136.

Amyrgian Scythians, vii. 64.
Amyris, called the sage, vi. 127.
Amyrtæus, king of Egypt, ii. 140; iii. 15,
16.

Amytheon, father of Melamphus, ii. 49.
Anacharsis, a Scythian sage, iv. 46, 76, 77.
Anacreon, the poet, iii. 121.

Anactorians, of Epirus, ix. 28, 65.
Anaphes, leader of the Cissians, vii. 62.
Anaphlystus, a village of Attica, iv. 99.
Anaua, a city of Phrygia, vii. 80.
Anaxagoras, i. 103; ii. 21; iii. 108.
Anaxander, son of Eurycrates, vii. 204.
Anaxandrides, king of Sparta, i. 67; v.
39-41; vii. 204, 205.

Anaxandrides, son of Theopompus, viii. 131.
Anaxilaus, son of Archidamus, viii. 131.
Anaxilaus, tyrant of Rhegium, vi. 23; vii.
165.

Anchimolius, a Spartan, v. 63.

Andreas, ancester of Clisthenes, vii. 126.
Andrians, viii. 66, 111.

Androbulus, father of Timon, vii. 161.
Androcrates, a hero, ix. 25.

Androdamas, father of Theomestor, viii.
85; ix. 90.

Andromeda, wife of Perseus, vii. 61, 150.
Androphagi, iv. 18, 102, 106, 119, 125.
Androsphinxes, ii. 175.

Andros, one of the Cyclades, iv. 33; v. 31,
33; viii. 111.

Aneristus, father of Sperthias, vii. 134.
Aneristus, son of Sperthias, vii. 137.
Angites, a river flowing into the Strymon,
vii. 113.

Angrus, a river of Illyria, iv. 49.

Anopæa, a mountain path at Thermopyla,
vii. 216.

Antacæus, a fish, iv. 53.

Antagoras, of Coos, father of Hegetorides,
ix. 76.

Antandrus, a city of Troas, v. 26; vii. 42.
Anthela, a city near Thermopylæ, vii. 176,
200.

Anthemus, a city of Macedonia, v. 94.
Anthylla, a city of Egypt, ii. 98.
Antichares, an Elian, v. 43.
Anticyra, a city of Thessaly, vii. 198.
Antidorus, a Lemnian, viii. 11.
Antiochus, father of Tisamenes, ix. 33.
Antipater, a Thasian, vii. 118.
Antiphemus, general of the Lindians, vii.
153.

Anysis, king of Egypt, ii. 137, 140.
Anysis, a city of Egypt, ii. 137, 166.
Anysus, father of Tetramnestus, vii. 98.
Aparytes, a people of Asia, iii. 91.
Apaturian festival, i. 147.

Aphetæ, a port of Magnesia, vii. 193; viii.
4, 6.

Aphidna, a town of Attica, viii. 125; ix. 73.
Aphrodisias, an island on the coast of
Libya, iv. 169.

Aphthis, a district in Egypt. ii. 166.
Aphytis, a city of Pallene, vii. 123.
Apia, a Scythian divinity, iv. 59.

Apidanus, a river of Thessaly, vii. 129, 196.
Apis, an Egyptian god, ii. 153; iii. 27.
Apollo, the Egyptian Orus, ii. 83, 144, 155,
156; iv. 15, 158; vii. 26. Ismenian, i.
52, 92; v. 59. Ptoan, viii. 165. Scythian,
iv. 59; Triopian, i. 144.

Apollonia on the Euxine, iv. 90.
Apollonia on the Ionian gulf, ix. 92, 93.
Apollophanes, father of Bisaltes, vi. 26.
Apries, king of Egypt, ii. 161, 169; iv. 159.
Apsinthians, or Absinthians, a people of
Thrace, vi. 34; ix. 119.

Apulia, iii. 168; iv. 99.

Arabia, ii. 8, 12; iii. 107,112; iv. 39; vii. 69.
Arabians, i. 198; iii. 8, 9, 86, 88, 97; vii.
69, 86.

Arabian gulf, ii. 11; iv. 39.

Aratus, a river of Scythia, iv. 48.

Araxes, a river of Scythia, i. 126, 202, 205;
iii. 36; iv. 11, 40.

Arcadians, i. 66, 146; ii. 171; v. 49; vi.
74; vii. 202; viii. 26, 73.

Arcesilaus, son of Battus, iv. 159.

Arcesilaus, son of Battus the lame, iv. 162.
Archander, son of Achæus, ii. 98.
Archander, a city in Egypt, ii. 97.
Archelæans, a tribe of Sicyon, v. 68.
Archelaus, of Sparta, vii. 204.
Archestratidas, a Samian, ix. 90.
| Archias, a Spartan, iii. 55.
Archias, a Samian, iii. 55.
Archidamus, of Sparta, viii. 131.
Archidice, a courtesan, ii. 185.
Archilochus, a Parian poet, i. 12.
Ardericca, a town of Assyria, i. 185.
Ardericca, a town in Cissia, vi. 114.
Ardys, king of Sardis, i. 15.
Areopagus, viii. 52.

Argadas, son of Ion, v. 66.

Argæus, king of Macedonia, viii. 139.
Arganthonius, king of Tartessus, i. 163.
Arge and Opis, Hyperborean virgins, iv. 35.
Argia, wife of Aristodemus, vi. 52.
Argilus, a city of Bisaltia, vii. 115.
Argiopius, near the Asopus, ix. 57.
Argippæi, a people bordering on Scythia,
iv. 23.

Argives, people of Peloponnesus, i. 61, 82;
iii. 131; v. 86; vi. 78, 83, 92, 93; vii.
148-152; ix. 27, 35.

Argo, the ship of Jason, iv. 179; vii. 193.
Argolis, in Peloponnesus, i. 82.

Argonauts, companions of Jason, i. 3; iv.
145, 179.

Argos, city of Peloponnesus, i. 1; v. 67;
vi. 83; vii. 150.
Argus, a hero, vi. 80.

Ariabignes, son of Darius, vii. 97; viii. 89.
Ariantas, a Scythian king, iv. 81.
Ariapithes, a Scythian king, iv. 76, 78.
Ariaramnes, a Persian, viii. 90.
Aridolis, tyrant of Alabanda, vii. 195.
Arians, a people of Asia, iii. 93. Ancient
name of the Medes, vii. 62, 66.
Arimaspians, a people of northern Europe,
iii. 116; iv. 13.

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