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The chapter is an interpolation, probably a note of some reader. (1) It is wanting in the best family of MSS. (2) The καὶ οἱ Ἀλκμεωνίδαι of 123. 1 answers to the Καλλίης τε of 121. 2. (3) It is not criticized by Plutarch in his attack on H. for mentioning Callias (ch. 121 n.). (4) The following phrases and words are late or un-Herodotean: τὰπρολελεγμένα = τά μοι πρότερον εἴρηται, ἐφανερώθη = ἀπολαμπρυνθείς (70. 3), δωρέη = dowry; so σφι . . . ἐκείνῃσι is incorrect. (5) The imitations of H. ἄξιον μνήμην ἔχειν (i. 14. 1; ii. 111. 4), ἄκρος (v. 112. 1), γάμου ὡραῖαι (i. 196. 1), τοῦτο μὲν . . . τοῦτο δέ are rather forced. Yet the facts stated may be true, though ἐλευθερῶν is rhetorical exaggeration.


ἵππῳ νικήσας. In Ol. 54 = 564 B. C. Schol. ad Arist. Av. 283.

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