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[28] ἐκτήσαντο δέ ποτε καὶ ναυτικὴν ἀξιόλογον δύναμιν Κολοφώνιοι καὶ ἱππικήν, ἐν ᾗ τοσοῦτον διέφερον τῶν ἄλλων ὥσθ᾽, ὅπου ποτὲ ἐν τοῖς δυσκαταλύτοις πολέμοις τὸ ἱππικὸν τῶν Κολοφωνίων ἐπικουρήσειε, λύεσθαι τὸν πόλεμον: ἀφ᾽ οὗ καὶ τὴν παροιμίαν ἐκδοθῆναι τὴν λέγουσαν ‘τὸν Κολοφῶνα ἐπέθηκεν’ ὅταν τέλος ἐπιτεθῇ βέβαιον τῷ πράγματι. ἄνδρες δ᾽ ἐγένοντο Κολοφώνιοι τῶν μνημονευομένων Μίμνερμος αὐλητὴς ἅμα καὶ ποιητὴς ἐλεγείας, καὶ Ξενοφάνης ὁ φυσικός, ὁ τοὺς σίλλους ποιήσας διὰ ποιημάτων: λέγει δὲ Πίνδαρος καὶ Πολύμναστόν τινα τῶν περὶ τὴν μουσικὴν ἐλλογίμων “ φθέγμα μὲν πάγκοινον ἔγνωκας ;Πολυμνάστου Κολοφωνίου ἀνδρός.
”1 καὶ Ὅμηρον δέ τινες ἐντεῦθεν εἶναί φασιν. [p. 898] Εὐθυπλοίᾳ μὲν οὖν ἑβδομήκοντα στάδιοί εἰσιν ἐξ Ἐφέσου, ἐγκολπίζοντι δὲ ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι.
1 Pind. fr. 188 （Bergk）
Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Late Archaic City-State
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- LSJ, δυσκατά-λυ^τος
- LSJ, κολοφών
- LSJ, σίλλος
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