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HERODOTUS 6.105.2
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2019
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This is the text of Hdt. 6.105.1–2, as printed by the most recent editors, Wilson and Hornblower–Pelling:
καὶ πρῶτα μὲν ἐόντες ἔτι ἐν τῷ ἄστεϊ οἱ στρατηγοὶ ἀποπέμπουσι ἐς Σπάρτην κήρυκα Φιλιππίδην, Ἀθηναῖον μὲν ἄνδρα, ἄλλως δὲ ἡμεροδρόμην τε καὶ τοῦτο μελετῶντα· τῷ δή, ὡς αὐτός γε ἔλεγε Φιλιππίδης καὶ Ἀθηναίοισι ἀπήγγελλε, περὶ τὸ Παρθένιον ὄρος τὸ ὑπὲρ Τεγέης ὁ Πὰν περιπίπτει· βώσαντα δὲ τὸ οὔνομα τοῦ Φιλιππίδεω τὸν Πᾶνα Ἀθηναίους κελεῦσαι ἐπειρωτῆσαι, δι᾽ ὅ τι ἑωυτοῦ οὐδεμίαν ἐπιμελείαν ποιεῦνται, ἐόντος εὐνόου Ἀθηναίοισι καὶ πολλαχῇ γενομένου σφι ἤδη χρηστοῦ, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι καὶ ἐσομένου.
- MSS Ἀθηναίοισι … ἀπαγγεῖλαι Wilson Ἀθηναίους … ἐπειρωτῆσαι
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I wish to thank the anonymous referee for very helpful comments.
References
1 Wilson, N.G., Herodoti Historiae: Libri V–IX (Oxford, 2015)Google Scholar. See the review articles by Liberman, G., JHS 136 (2016), 193–6CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Cantore, R., CR 66 (2016), 340–4Google Scholar.
2 Hornblower, S. and Pelling, C., Herodotus: Histories Book 6 (Cambridge, 2017)Google Scholar.
3 See Wilson, N.G., Herodotea. Studies on the Text of Herodotus (Oxford, 2015)Google Scholar, 118.
4 Hornblower–Pelling (n. 2), 231: ‘Wilson's bold emendation of MS Ἀθηναίοισι … ἀπαγγεῖλαι looks right (or perhaps e.g. Ἀθηναίοισι … ἀπαγγεῖλαι καὶ εἰρωτῆσαι)’.
5 See previous n.
6 It functions as aorist of ἐρωτάω. See Chantraine, P., Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Grecque, Histoire des mots, Tome II (Paris, 1970)Google Scholar, 370.
7 In eleven cases out of twelve the verb introduces an indirect question (the only exception is Hdt. 1.19.2: τὸν θεὸν ἐπειρέσθαι περὶ τῆς νούσου).