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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 Apsinthian 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 Chersonitæ, that the following prodigy occurred to one of the guards as he was broiling salt-fish; the salt-fish lying on the fire leapt 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 two 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.

THE END.

INDEX.

ABE, a city of Phocis, with a temple of
Apollo, i. 46; viii. 27, 33, 134
Abantes, a people who migrated from
Euboea to Ionia, i. 146

Abaris, an Hyperborean, iv. 36

Abdera, a town in Thrace, i. 168; vi. 46;
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
Acanthus, a city of Macedonia, vi. 44;
vii. 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.
of Phthiotis, vii. 132, 197
Achæmenes, son of Darius, iii. 12; vii. 7,
97, 236

father of Teispes, and an-
cestor of Darius, vii. 11
Achæmenidæ, the royal family of the
Persians, 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 Bo-
rysthenes 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

son of Ocytus of Corinth, viii.

5, 59, 61, 94
Adrastus, son of Gordius, and grandson of
Midas, i. 35, 41, 43, 45

king of Sicyon, v. 67, 68
Adria, in Italy, i. 163; v. 9

Adrimachida, a people of Libya, iv. 168

Ea, a city of Colchis, i. 2; vii. 193, 197
Eaces, son of Syloson, and father of Poly-
crates, iii. 39; vi. 13

son of Syloson, and tyrant of Sa-
mos, iv. 138; vi. 13, 25
Eacidæ, viii. 64

Eacus, of Ægina, vi. 35
Ega, a city of Pallene, vii. 123
gæ, in Achaia, i. 145
Egææ, a city of Æolis, i. 149
Ægæan sea, iv. 85

Ægaleos, a mountain in Attica, viii. 90
Ægeus, son of Oiolycus, iv. 149
-, son of Pandion, i. 173
Ægialees, Pelasgians, vii. 94
Ægialeus, son of Adrastus, v. 68
Ægicores, son of Ion, v. 66
Ægidæ, a tribe in Sparta, iv. 149
Egila, or Augila, in Libya, iv. 172
Egileans, v. 68

Egilia, an island of the Styreans in Eu-
boea, vi. 107;-in Eretria, vi. 101
Ægina, daughter of Asopus, v. 80

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 Eolia, i. 149
Ægis of Minerva, iv. 180, 189
Egium, a city of Achaia, i. 145
Egli, a people of Asia, iii. 92
Egos Potami, ix. 119

Egyra, a city of Achaia, i. 145
Aeimnestus, a Spartan, ix. 68

Ænea, a town in Macedonia, vii. 123
Enesidemus, 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

Eolian cities, i. 149, 151; viii. 35

Æolians, 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

father of Alcetas and son of
Philip, viii. 139

descendant of Temenus, viii. 137

Æsanius, 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

"" 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

Agenor, father of Cilix, a Phoenician, vii.
91

Agesilaus, son of Doryssus, vii. 204

-, son of Hippocratides, viii. 131

Agetus, son of Alcides, vi. 61, 62
Agis, father of Menares, vi. 65

-, 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

-, 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

-, 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

-, 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.

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

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

Aleuadæ, Thessalian chiefs, vii. 6, 130,
172; ix. 58

Alexander, king of Macedonia, v. 19, 20,
22; vii. 137, 173; viii. 121, 136, 139, 140;
ix. 44, 45

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. 173, 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

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

203
Amathus, a city of Cyprus, v. 104-108
Amathusians, v. 104, 114

Amazons, in Scythia, iv. 110-117, 193;
ix. 27

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

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-, 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

-, 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 Melampus, 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. 30
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

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

165

Anchimolius, a Spartan, v. 63.
Andreas, ancestor 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
-, 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 Thermopylæ,
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
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

Aphidnæ, 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. 135. Scythian,
iv. 59; Triopian, i. 144

Apollonia on the Euxine, iv. 90

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. 138; 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

-, son of Battus the lame, iv. 162
Archander, son of Achæus, ii. 98
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

-, a Samian, iii. 55
Archidamus, of Sparta, viii. 131
Archidice, a courtesan, ii. 135
Archilochus, a Parian poet, i. 12
Ardericca, a town of Assyria, i. 185
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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