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one of which often grows without its being noticed, as for
example the number of the poor in democracies and constitutional states.
And sometimes this is also
brought about by accidental occurrences, as for instance at Tarentum when a great many notables were
defeated and killed by the Iapygians a short time after the Persian wars a
constitutional government was changed to a democracy, and at Argos when those in the seventh tribeThe word to be understood here may be fulh=|, or possibly h(me/ra|: the seventh day of the month was sacred to Apollo,
especially at Sparta, and one
account assigns Cleomenes' victory to that day, in which case the casualties
may well have been known afterwards as ‘those who fell on the
seventh.’ had been destroyed by the Spartan Cleomenes the
citizens were compelled to admit some of the surrounding people, and at
Athens when they suffered
disasters by land the notables became fewer because at th
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 24 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 3, chapter 136 (search)
They came down to the city of Sidon in Phoenicia, and there chartered two triremes, as well as a great galley laden with all good things; and when everything was ready they set sail for Hellas, where they surveyed and mapped the coasts to which they came; until having viewed the greater and most famous parts they reached Tarentum in Italy.
There Aristophilides, king of the Tarentines, out of sympathy for Democedes, took the steering gear off the Median ships and put the Persians under a guard, calling them spies. While they were in this plight, Democedes made his way to Croton; and Aristophilides did not set the Persians free and give them back what he had taken from their ships until the physician was in his own country.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 3, chapter 137 (search)
The Persians sailed from Tarentum and pursued Democedes to Croton, where they found him in the marketplace and tried to seize him.
Some Crotoniats, who feared the Persian power, would have given him up; but others resisted and beat the Persians with their sticks. “Men of Croton, watch what you do,” said the Persians; “you are harboring an escaped slave of the King's.
How do you think King Darius will like this insolence? What good will it do you if he gets away from us? What city will we attack first here? Which will we try to enslave first?”
But the men of Croton paid no attention to them; so the Persians lost Democedes and the galley with which they had come, and sailed back for Asia, making no attempt to visit and learn of the further parts of Hellas now that their guide was taken from them.
But Democedes gave them a message as they were setting sail; they should tell Darius, he said, that Democedes was engaged to the daughter of Milon. For Darius held the name of Milon the wrestl
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 3, chapter 138 (search)