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These Pelasgians dwelt at that time in Lemnos and desired vengeance on the Athenians. Since they well knew the time of the Athenian festivals, they acquired fifty-oared ships and set an ambush for the Athenian women celebrating the festival of Artemis at Brauron. They seized many of the women, then sailed away with them and brought them to Lemnos to be their concubines.
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These women bore more and more children, and they taught their sons the speech of Attica and Athenian manners. These boys would not mix with the sons of the Pelasgian women; if one of them was beaten by one of the others, they would all run to his aid and help each other; these boys even claimed to rule the others, and were much stronger.
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When the Pelasgians perceived this, they took counsel together; it troubled them much in their deliberations to think what the boys would do when they grew to manhood, if they were resolved to help each other against the sons of the lawful wives and attempted to rule them already.
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Thereupon the Pelasgians resolved to kill the sons of the Attic women; they did this, and then killed the boys' mothers also. From this deed and the earlier one which was done by the women when they killed their own husbands who were Thoas' companions, a “Lemnian crime” has been a proverb in Hellas for any deed of cruelty.
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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- LSJ, Λῆμνος
- LSJ, δῆθεν
- LSJ, ἅμα^
- LSJ, διαγιγνώσκω
- LSJ, εἰσδύνω
- LSJ, κουρ-ίδιος
- LSJ, λόγος
- LSJ, λοχ-άω
- LSJ, νομ-ίζω
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- LSJ, πεντηκόντ-ερος
- LSJ, προσαπόλλυ_μι
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- LSJ, τι_μωρ-έω
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