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After ἄλλαι van Herwerden (cf. Stein) supplies δύο καὶ δέκα, because the contingents enumerated only amount to 366 ships, not to 378 as stated by H. (ch. 48; cf. ch. 82. 2). The additional twelve ships would make the Aeginetan contingent (42) second to the Athenian, as Pausanias (ii. 29. 5) states, bringing it above the Corinthian squadron (40). Munro, however, prefers Cobet's ἀλλαι ί νέες, partly on palaeographical grounds, partly because the special squadron in Aeschylus (Pers. 340) is one of ten ships. The addition of ten ships would make the Aeginetan contingent equal to the Corinthian, and H. may have inadvertently reckoned the two deserters (ch. 82. 2) twice over; cf. J. H. S. xxii. 322

ἀπὸ Ἐπιδαύρου: cf. v. 83 n.

Οἰνώνη is the name of the desert island to which Zeus carried the nymph Aegina (cf. v. 80 n.); there she bore Aeacus its first inhabitant (Paus. ii. 29). Pindar (Isth. vii. 21) in telling this story calls the island Oenopia, though elsewhere (Nem. iv. 46; v. 16; viii. 7) Oenona. Oenone seems to be connected with οἶνον, and may be, like Calliste (iv. 147), rather a descriptive epithet than an earlier name.


ἀπὸ Ἀθηνέων: cf. vii. 95. 1 n.


For Democritus cf. Simonides, fr. 136 (Plut. de Mal. 36) Δημόκριτος τρίτος ἦρχε μάχης ὅτε πὰρ Σαλαμῖνα Ἕλληνες Μήδοις σύμβαλον ἐνπελάγει: πέντε δὲ νῆας ἕλεν δηίων, ἕκτην δ᾽ ὑπὸ χειρὸς ῥύσατο βαρβαρικῆς Δωρίδ̓ ἁλισκομένην. Perhaps the six ships ascribed to the Naxians by Hellanicus and the five of Ephorus (Plut. l. c.) come from an imperfect recollection of this epigram. Plutarch makes H. speak of only three Naxian ships.


Thucydides (vii. 57) is probably wrong in reckoning the men of Styra as Ionians, since Pausanias (iv. 34. 11) confirms H.

Ceos, Cythnos, Seriphos, Siphnos, and Melos are the most western Cyclades nearest Greece.

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