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It is related by the people of the Chersonese that a marvellous thing happened one of those who guarded Artayctes. He was frying dried fish, and these as they lay over the fire began to leap and writhe as though they had just been caught.
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The rest gathered around, amazed at the sight, but when Artayctes saw this strange thing, he called the one who was frying the fish and said to him: “Athenian, do not be afraid of this portent, for it is not to you that it has been sent; it is to me that Protesilaus of Elaeus is trying to signify that although he is dead and dry, he has power given him by the god to take vengeance on me, the one who wronged him.
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Now therefore I offer a ransom, the sum of one hundred talents to the god for the treasure that I took from his temple. I will also pay to the Athenians two hundred talents for myself and my son, if they spare us.”
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But Xanthippus the general was unmoved by this promise, for the people of Elaeus desired that Artayctes should be put to death in revenge for Protesilaus, and the general himself was so inclined. So they carried Artayctes away to the headland where Xerxes had bridged the strait (or, by another story, to the hill above the town of Madytus), and there nailed him to boards and hanged him. As for his son, they stoned him to death before his father's eyes.
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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- Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache, Von dem Wesen der Sprachlaute und von dem Verhältnisse derselben zu einander in den Mundarten.
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- LSJ, ἄποινα
- LSJ, ἀνακρεμ-άννυ_μι
- LSJ, ἀσπαίρω
- LSJ, ἐπιτίθημι
- LSJ, φαίνω
- LSJ, φέρω
- LSJ, κατατίθημι
- LSJ, καταχορ-χρέομαι
- LSJ, νε-άλωτος
- LSJ, νεο-άλωτος
- LSJ, νόος
- LSJ, ὅπως περ,
- LSJ, ὀπτάω
- LSJ, πάλλω
- LSJ, περιχέω
- LSJ, προσπασσα^λεύω
- LSJ, θνῄσκω
- LSJ, σα^νίς
- LSJ, τάρι_χ-ος
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