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- Author: Herodotus
- Full Title: Terpsichore
- Category: articles
- Summary: Sparta sent forces to attack Athens and restore the exiled tyrant Hippias. Athens refused Persian demands to take Hippias back and chose enmity with Persia. Revolts and betrayals in the wider region led to Persian victories and exile for leaders like Aristagoras.
- URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/391622947
Highlights
- The Thracians are the most powerful people in the world, except, of course, the Indians; and if they had one head, or were agreed among themselves, it is my belief that their match could not be found anywhere, and that they would very far surpass all other nations. (View Highlight)
- When a child is born all its kindred sit round about it in a circle and weep for the woes it will have to undergo now that it is come into the world, making mention of every ill that falls to the lot of humankind; when, on the other hand, a man has died, they bury him with laughter and rejoicings, and say that now he is free from a host of sufferings, and enjoys the completest happiness. (View Highlight)
- Tattooing among them marks noble birth, and the want of it low birth. To be idle is accounted the most honourable thing, and to be a tiller of the ground the most dishonourable. (View Highlight)
- Still nothing is impossible in the long lapse of ages. (View Highlight)
- Darius asked if all the women of their country worked so hard? Then the brothers eagerly answered, Yes; (View Highlight)
- ordered him to remove the Paeonians from their own land, and bring them into his presence, men, women, and children. (View Highlight)
- But Alexander proved himself to be an Argive, and was distinctly adjudged a Greek (View Highlight)
- which was by taking the trustiest of his slaves, shaving all the hair from off his head, and then pricking letters upon the skin, and waiting till the hair grew again. Thus accordingly he did; and as soon as ever the hair was grown, he despatched the man to Miletus, giving him no other message than this—“When thou art come to Miletus, bid Aristagoras shave thy head, and look thereon. (View Highlight)
- When he heard this offer, Anaxandridas gave way—and henceforth he lived with two wives in two separate houses, quite against all Spartan custom. (View Highlight)
- After this, the first wife also, who in time past had been barren, by some strange chance conceived, and came to be with child. (View Highlight)
- Dorieus, who had imagined that he should be chosen, and who could not bear the thought of having such a man as Cleomenes to rule over him, asked the Spartans to give him a body of men, and left Sparta with them in order to found a colony. (View Highlight)
- These men brought him to Cinyps, where he colonised a spot, which has not its equal in all Libya, on the banks of a river: (View Highlight)
- Such are the testimonies which are adduced on either side; it is open to every man to adopt whichever view he deems the best. (View Highlight)
- At their interview, Aristagoras, according to the report of the Lacedaemonians, produced a bronze tablet, whereupon the whole circuit of the earth was engraved, with all its seas and rivers. (View Highlight)
- Truly the task is not difficult; for the barbarians are an unwarlike people; and you are the best and bravest warriors in the whole world. (View Highlight)
- the child spoke: —“Father,” she said, “get up and go, or the stranger will certainly corrupt thee.” Then Cleomenes, pleased at the warning of his child, withdrew and went into another room. (View Highlight)
- Bear thou unbearable woes with the all-bearing heart of a lion; Never, be sure, shall wrong-doer escape the reward of wrong-doing. (View Highlight)
- when paper was scarce they used, instead, the skins of sheep and goats—on which material many of the barbarians are even now wont to write. (View Highlight)
- It was in the reign of this Laodamas, the son of Eteocles, that the Cadmeians were driven by the Argives out of their country, and found a shelter with the Encheleans. (View Highlight)