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The alliance with Cyrene was a natural reversal of the policy of Apries. Wiedemann says the story of the marriage is a fabrication; his reasons are: (1) The uncertainty as to the bride's parentage (but this really confirms the story's accuracy; a fiction would have left no doubt on the subject). (2) The improbability that Cambyses would give up a valuable hostage, when intending to attack Cyrene. (3) The fact that Ladike is not mentioned on the monuments. It is always dangerous to reject a well-authenticated tradition on merely a priori grounds; Maspero, iii. 646, accepts it.


Βάττου. Stein thinks Battus II, ‘the happy,’ who came to the throne about 574 B. C. (iv. 159), is meant; but the dependent position of Ladike seems to agree rather with the circumstances of Battus III, iv. 161.


ἀπολωλέναι. The tense expresses proleptically the certain doom.


H.'s details go far to prove that he had seen the statue.

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