Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 69

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ταῦτα δὴ ὦν πάντα πυνθανόμενος ὁ Κροῖσος ἔπεμπε ἐς Σπάρτην ἀγγέλους δῶρά τε φέροντας καὶ δεησομένους συμμαχίης, ἐντειλάμενός τε τὰ λέγειν χρῆν. οἳ δὲ ἐλθόντες ἔλεγον [2] ‘ἔπεμψε ἡμέας Κροῖσος ὁ Λυδῶν τε καὶ ἄλλων ἐθνέων βασιλεύς, λέγων τάδε. ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, χρήσαντος τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν Ἕλληνα φίλον προσθέσθαι, ὑμέας γὰρ πυνθάνομαι προεστάναι τῆς Ἑλλάδος, ὑμέας ὦν κατὰ τὸ χρηστήριον προσκαλέομαι φίλος τε θέλων γενέσθαι καὶ σύμμαχος ἄνευ τε δόλου καὶ ἀπάτης.’ [3] Κροῖσος μὲν δὴ ταῦτα δι᾽ ἀγγέλων ἐπεκηρυκεύετο, Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ ἀκηκοότες καὶ αὐτοὶ τὸ θεοπρόπιον τὸ Κροίσῳ γενόμενον ἥσθησάν τε τῇ ἀπίξι τῶν Λυδῶν καὶ ἐποιήσαντο ὅρκια ξεινίης πέρι καὶ συμμαχίης: καὶ γὰρ τινὲς αὐτοὺς εὐεργεσίαι εἶχον ἐκ Κροίσου πρότερον ἔτι γεγονυῖαι. [4] πέμψαντες γὰρ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἐς Σάρδις χρυσὸν ὠνέοντο, ἐς ἄγαλμα βουλόμενοι χρήσασθαι τοῦτο τὸ νῦν τῆς Λακωνικῆς ἐν Θόρνακι ἵδρυται Ἀπόλλωνος: Κροῖσος δέ σφι ὠνεομένοισι ἔδωκε δωτίνην.

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

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Commentary references to this page (2):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 404
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra, 9
Cross-references to this page (15):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.1.4
- Harper's, Chilo
- Harper's, Oroetes
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AURUM
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), JUSJURANDUM
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), NOMOS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LACO´NIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), THORNAX
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter II
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Tenses
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Forms of the subject.
- Smith's Bio, Anaxa'ndrides
- Smith's Bio, Lycurgus
- Smith's Bio, Oroetes
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (9):
- LSJ, ἄφιξις
- LSJ, ἀπα?́τ-η
- LSJ, ξεν-ία
- LSJ, διά
- LSJ, ἥδομαι
- LSJ, οὖν
- LSJ, προΐστημι
- LSJ, τε
- LSJ, ὠνέομαι

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