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συνήλισαν. A like desperation was shown against Brutus in 42 B.C. (App. B. C. iv. 80, who says it had been shown also against Alexander in 334: this is obviously wrong; cf. Arr. Anab. i. 24. 4).


ἐκδημέουσαι. For a parallel in the Fabius who survived the Cremera (477 B.C.) cf. Liv. ii. 50. Some explain their absence by their having gone up into the hills in the summer.

Harpagus seems to have become hereditary satrap of Lycia (though there were also native rulers; cf. vii. 98 n.). A descendant of his, Karmis (?), was ruler there about 430 B.C., and is commemorated on the Xanthian Stele in the British Museum (l. 5, Hicks, No. 56, pp. 96-7; Meyer, iv. 683, refers it to 413 B.C.): it is suggested that the ‘triquetra’ of the Lycian coins may be a pun on the family name (ἁρπάγη = a hook); but Head (H. N. 688) makes it a solar symbol connected with the Apollo cult.

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