Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 66

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οὕτω μὲν μεταβαλόντες εὐνομήθησαν, τῷ δὲ Λυκούργῳ τελευτήσαντι ἱρὸν εἱσάμενοι σέβονται μεγάλως. οἷα δὲ ἐν τε χώρῃ ἀγαθῇ καὶ πλήθεϊ οὐκ ὀλίγων ἀνδρῶν, ἀνά τε ἔδραμον αὐτίκα καὶ εὐθηνήθησαν, καὶ δή σφι οὐκέτι ἀπέχρα ἡσυχίην ἄγειν, ἀλλὰ καταφρονήσαντες Ἀρκάδων κρέσσονες εἶναι ἐχρηστηριάζοντο ἐν Δελφοῖσι ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ Ἀρκάδων χωρῇ. [2] ἡ δὲ Πυθίη σφι χρᾷ τάδε. “Ἀρκαδίην μ᾽ αἰτεῖς: μέγα μ᾽ αἰτεῖς: οὐ τοι δώσω.
πολλοὶ ἐν Ἀρκαδίῃ βαλανηφάγοι ἄνδρες ἔασιν,
οἵ σ᾽ ἀποκωλύσουσιν. ἐγὼ δὲ τοι οὔτι μεγαίρω:
δώσω τοί Τεγέην ποσσίκροτον ὀρχήσασθαι
καὶ καλὸν πεδίον σχοίνῳ διαμετρήσασθαι.
” [3] ταῦτα ὡς ἀπενειχθέντα ἤκουσαν οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι,Ἀρκάδων μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἀπείχοντο, οἳ δὲ πέδας φερόμενοι ἐπὶ Τεγεήτας ἐστρατεύοντο, χρησμῷ κιβδήλῳ πίσυνοι, ὡς δὴ ἐξανδραποδιούμενοι τοὺς Τεγεήτας. [4] ἑσσωθέντες δὲ τῇ συμβολῇ, ὅσοι αὐτῶν ἐζωγρήθησαν, πέδας τε ἔχοντες τὰς ἐφέροντο αὐτοὶ καὶ σχοίνῳ διαμετρησάμενοι τὸ πεδίον τὸ Τεγεητέων ἐργάζοντο. αἱ δὲ πέδαι αὗται ἐν τῇσι ἐδεδέατο ἔτι καὶ ἐς ἐμὲ ἦσαν σόαι ἐν Τεγέῃ περὶ τὸν νηὸν τῆς Ἀλέης Ἀθηναίης κρεμάμεναι.

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

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), 5.808
Cross-references to this page (8):
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, TEGEA Arkadia, Greece.
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.3
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PELASGI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TE´GEA
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
- Smith's Bio, Charila'us
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Plut. Cor. 3
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (29):
- LSJ, δή
- LSJ, ἀνατρέχω
- LSJ, ἀπέχω
- LSJ, ἀποφέρω
- LSJ, ἀποκωλ-ύω
- LSJ, ἀποχράω
- LSJ, βα^λα^νη-φάγος
- LSJ, δέω
- LSJ, διαμετρ-έω
- LSJ, ἐξανδρα^ποδ-ίζω
- LSJ, ἐπί
- LSJ, εὐνομ-έομαι
- LSJ, εὐθενέω
- LSJ, φέρω
- LSJ, ἡσυ^χ-ία
- LSJ, ἵζω
- LSJ, καταφρον-έω
- LSJ, κίβδηλ-ος
- LSJ, μεγαίρω
- LSJ, ὁ
- LSJ, ὀρχέομαι
- LSJ, πίσυ^νος
- LSJ, ποσσί-κροτος
- LSJ, σέβομαι
- LSJ, συμβολ-ή
- LSJ, σῶς
- LSJ, σχοῖνος
- LSJ, τελευτ-άω
- LSJ, ζωγρ-έω

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