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ἄρρητα. For secret rites confined to women cf. v. 82, 83 nn.


δεῖν (cf. ii. 161. 3). To H. this is the general nemesis of too great success and fame; by the time of Pausanias (iii. 12. 7) a special transgression has been discovered, the proposal to throw the heralds of Darius into the Barathron, for which cause the wrath of Talthybius fell on Miltiades. This tradition must have been unknown to H. (cf. vii. 133. 2), and like the story in Plato (Gorgias 516 E) that Miltiades himself only escaped being cast into the Barathron through the interference of the Prytanis, seems a later accretion designed to heighten the effect.

φανῆναι: i. e. an apparition was sent to Miltiades in the shape of Timo (Stein); cf. iv. 15. 2; vii. 16. γ 1 and 3; viii. 37. 2; ix. 100, and φάσμα, vi. 69. 1, 117. 3.

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