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Paros was a most prosperous island, rich in marble (iii. 57; v. 62), Tozer, I. Aeg. p. 115. In the historian's own time it paid a tribute of 16 1/3 talents to Athens, an amount only exceeded by Thasos and Aegina (30 talents), and more than twice as much as Naxos and Andros, larger islands, paid. Beloch (i. 402-3) suggests it was then the mart of the Aegean, as in Roman times Delos, and in modern Syra.

Hydarnes: probably not the man who took part in the conspiracy of the seven, but his son was commander of the ‘Immortals’ in the invasion of Xerxes (vii. 83, 211), and subsequently στρατηγὸς τῶν παραθαλασσίων (vii. 135). He may have already held this command when Miltiades was driven from the Chersonese, 493 B. C. (ch. 33).


καὶ τῇ, ‘wherever there was from time to time a weak place in the wall.’ The genitive τοῦ τείχεος depends on τῇ. The iterative form ἔσκε emphasizes ἑκάστοτε. For ἐπίμαχον cf. i. 84. 3.

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