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προκατιζόμενον: sitting to give judgement, a genuinely oriental habit; cf. i. 14. 97. Nicolaus Damascenus (fr. 71) tells of Alyattes, king of Lydia, and a man from ‘Thracian’ Mysia and his wife, a story so similar in all its details that E. Meyer (F. i. 168 n.) suspects the variations from H. are due to the carelessness of the excerptor, Constantine Porphyr. (F. H. G. iii. 413). It is, however, more probable that an older Lydian tale was tacked on to Darius erroneously.

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