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τίσιες. For the personification of ‘vengeance’ cf. 128. 5; viii. 106. 4 τίσις καὶ Ἑρμότιμος, and Od. xi. 280μητρὸς Ἐρινύες”.

βασιληίην. H. writes loosely ‘after the rule of the Magian’; this was itself, according to one of his ‘sources’ (65. 5 and App. V. 6), ‘the taking away of empire from the Persians by the Medes.’


ὑπείσας. For such a method of dealing with a messenger sent to recall a governor cf. 127. 3 n.

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