Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 91

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ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ὕστερον ἐγίνετο. Αἰγινητέων δὲ οἱ παχέες ἐπαναστάντος τοῦ δήμου σφι ἅμα Νικοδρόμῳ ἐπεκράτησαν, καὶ ἔπειτα σφέας χειρωσάμενοι ἐξῆγον ἀπολέοντες. ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ καὶ ἄγος σφι ἐγένετο, τὸ ἐκθύσασθαι οὐκ οἶοί τε ἐγένοντο ἐπιμηχανώμενοι, ἀλλ᾽ ἔφθησαν ἐκπεσόντες πρότερον ἐκ τῆς νήσου ἤ σφι ἵλεον γενέσθαι τὴν θεόν. [2] ἑπτακοσίους γὰρ δὴ τοῦ δήμου ζωγρήσαντες ἐξῆγον ὡς ἀπολέοντες, εἷς δέ τις τούτων ἐκφυγὼν τὰ δεσμὰ καταφεύγει πρὸς πρόθυρα Δήμητρος θεσμοφόρου, ἐπιλαμβανόμενος δὲ τῶν ἐπισπαστήρων εἴχετο: οἳ δὲ ἐπείτε μιν ἀποσπάσαι οὐκ οἷοί τε ἀπέλκοντες ἐγίνοντο, ἀποκόψαντες αὐτοῦ τὰς χεῖρας ἦγον οὕτω, αἱ χεῖρες δὲ ἐκεῖναι ἐμπεφυκυῖαι ἦσαν τοῖσι ἐπισπαστῆρσι.

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: Antigone, 1186
- W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 1.381
Cross-references to this page (2):
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), JA´NUA
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), THESMOPHO´RIA
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (14):
- LSJ, ἄγος
- LSJ, ἀπο-κόπτω
- LSJ, ἀπο-σπάω
- LSJ, δεσμός
- LSJ, ἐκ-θύω
- LSJ, ἐμφύω
- LSJ, ἐπιμηχα^ν-άομαι
- LSJ, ἐπι-σπαστήρ
- LSJ, φθάνω
- LSJ, ἵλαος
- LSJ, πα^χύς
- LSJ, θεσμο-φόρος
- LSJ, θύω
- LSJ, ὕστερος

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