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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837. Excerpt:... tion to them.--Herod. lib. i. cap. 61. By this particle Herodotus implies that there was little doubt that these cities were under an obligation to the Pisistratidae, but that he had no express or sufficient information on the subject. Kal oi iraiStg iraiovrtg Tixovto twvrwv flaaiXta rival Tovtov 8tj Tov Flovk6xov iiriKXrjaiv iral-Sa' 6 8t avrwv Sisratt Tovg fiiv otKiag oUoSofiitiv, Toig 8i 8opvtyopovg rival, Twv Si Kov riva avrwv ojiOaXfiov jSaoiXjof rival.--And the children at play chose QCyrus to be their king, him / mean, who was called the herdsman's son; and he appointed some of them to build houses, and others to be his guards, and some one of them, / suppose, fjr most likely to be the king's Eye.--Herod. lib. i. cap. 114. Herodotus relates what boys playing at such a game would probably have done, not pretending to have express authority for every particular circumstance he details. Kot shows that the statement is of this nature. Examples showing the use of mre. 'Avriirifiirti irpbg return o HpwTivg Xtyovra raSe, "AvSpa Tovtov, iurrif Kots Soti avoaia tpyaofitvog Zrivov rbv iiavrov, avWajiovrtg airdytrt wap' Ifii, 'iva tiotji, 'on Kori Kal Xi£ti. To this Proteus sends back a messenger with the following answer.--Apprehend this man, whoever he is that has done this unholy deed to his host and bring him to me, that I may learn this also, what he can possibly have to say for himself.--Herod. lib. ii. cap. 114. Proteus, as he says, knows nothing about the man, or what he will say for himself. Kotc exactly expresses this state of mind, where no opinion is yet formed. Kni aXXoi Tiv'ig fit jjflij fipovro, drdp Kal lZvnvbg irpwtjv, '6,ti irori SiavoVOtig, iwoirjaag avra. Several others, as well as Evenus, have asked me; but Evenus asked me not long s...