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129.
When the appointed day came for the marriage feast and for Cleisthenes' declaration of whom he had chosen out of them all, Cleisthenes sacrificed a hundred oxen and gave a feast to the suitors and to the whole of Sicyon.
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After dinner the suitors vied with each other in music and in anecdotes for all to hear. As they sat late drinking, Hippocleides, now far outdoing the rest, ordered the flute-player to play him a dance-tune; the flute-player obeyed and he began to dance. I suppose he pleased himself with his dancing, but Cleisthenes saw the whole business with much disfavor.
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Hippocleides then stopped for a while and ordered a table to be brought in; when the table arrived, he danced Laconian figures on it first, and then Attic; last of all he rested his head on the table and made gestures with his legs in the air.
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Now Cleisthenes at the first and the second bout of dancing could no more bear to think of Hippocleides as his son-in-law, because of his dancing and his shamelessness, but he had held himself in check, not wanting to explode at Hippocleides; but when he saw him making gestures with his legs, he could no longer keep silence and said, “son of Tisandrus, you have danced away your marriage.” Hippocleides said in answer, “It does not matter to Hippocleides!” Since then this is proverbial.
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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- Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO HERMES
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Omission of parts of the simple sentence
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- LSJ, ἀμφί
- LSJ, ἀναίδεια
- LSJ, ἀπορχέομαι
- LSJ, ἀποστυ^γ-έω
- LSJ, ἀρεστός
- LSJ, ἔκφα^σις
- LSJ, ἔρις
- LSJ, ἐκ-ρήγνυ_μι
- LSJ, ἐμμέλεια
- LSJ, φροντ-ίς
- LSJ, κατά-κλι^σις
- LSJ, κατέχω
- LSJ, κρίνω
- LSJ, κύριος
- LSJ, μέσος
- LSJ, μουσι^κή
- LSJ, ὄρχ-ησις
- LSJ, ὀρχέομαι
- LSJ, πολύς
- LSJ, πρόειμι
- LSJ, σχημα?́τ-ιον
- LSJ, ὑποπτ-εύω
- LSJ, χειρονομ-έω
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