Herodotus, The Histories, Book 4, chapter 164

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But he returned to Cyrene with the men from Samos, and having made himself master of it he forgot the oracle, and demanded justice upon his enemies for his banishment. [2] Some of these left the country altogether; others, Arcesilaus seized and sent away to Cyprus to be killed there. These were carried off their course to Cnidus, where the Cnidians saved them and sent them to Thera. Others of the Cyrenaeans fled for refuge into a great tower that belonged to one Aglomachus, a private man, and Arcesilaus piled wood around it and burnt them there. [3] Then, perceiving too late that this was the meaning of the Delphic oracle which forbade him to bake the amphora if he found them in the oven, he deliberately refrained from going into the city of the Cyrenaeans, fearing the death prophesied and supposing the tidal place to be Cyrene. [4] Now he had a wife who was a relation of his, a daughter of Alazir king of the Barcaeans, and Arcesilaus went to Alazir; but men of Barce and some of the exiles from Cyrene were aware of him and killed him as he walked in the town, and Alazir his father-in-law too. So Arcesilaus whether with or without meaning to missed the meaning of the oracle and fulfilled his destiny.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax, 141
Cross-references to this page (6):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.3
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), BARCA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CYRE´NE
- Smith's Bio, Arcesilaus III.
- Smith's Bio, Ba'ttus
- Smith's Bio, Coro'bius
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (16):
- LSJ, ἀγοράζω
- LSJ, ἀντιστα^σ-ιώτης
- LSJ, ἀποφέρω
- LSJ, διαφθορ-ά
- LSJ, ἔργω
- LSJ, ἐξεργ-άζομαι
- LSJ, ἐξοπτ-άω
- LSJ, ἐπί
- LSJ, ἐπικρα^τ-έω
- LSJ, ἰδι^ωτ-ικός
- LSJ, κάμι_ν-ος
- LSJ, καταμανθάνω
- LSJ, μοῖρα
- LSJ, περινέω
- LSJ, ὕλη
- LSJ, χράω

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