Chapter IV: Introduction (3)

XXXIV. While things were thus, learning that Epaminondas [Sidenote: D] and Gorgidas were already forgathering with our friends near the temple of Athena, I took my way to join them. Many loyal citizens had already arrived, and more kept pouring in. When I had told them in detail the story of what had happened, and while I was imploring them to rally to the market-place, all agreed to summon the citizens at once ‘For Liberty!’ The crowds now forming up found arms to their hand in the warehouses full of spoils from all lands and in the factories of the swordmakers living near. Hippostheneidas had also arrived with friends and servants, bringing the trumpeters, who had, as it happened, been quartered in the town for the feast of Hercules. All at once they began to sound calls, some in the market-place, [Sidenote: E] others elsewhere, from every direction, to cause a panic among the other side, and make them think that the rising was general. Some lighted smoky fires[49] and so escaped to the Cadmeia, drawing with them also the aristocrats, so called, who were accustomed to pass the night on the low ground near the fortress. Those who were above, seeing this disorderly and confused stream of incomers, and ourselves about the market-place, no quiet anywhere, but indistinct noise and bustle rising up to them from all quarters, never made up their minds to come down, though there were some five thousand of them. They [Sidenote: F] thoroughly lost their heads in the danger, and Lysanoridas was a mere excuse: they professed to wait for his return, which was due that day. In consequence, he was afterwards sentenced to a heavy fine by the Lacedaemonian senate. Herippidas and Arcesus were arrested at Corinth later on and put to death. The Cadmeia was evacuated by them and surrendered to us under treaty, and the garrison withdrawn.

Footnote 20:

See, however, an article by Mr. R. F. Macnaghten in the _Classical
Review_ of September 1914 (vol. 28, p. 185 foll.).

Footnote 21:

_Isthm._ 1, 2.

Footnote 22:

So C. F. Hermann (ap. Ed. Teub.) for δυσί τῶν ἱερῶν.

Footnote 23:

Here several words of the text have been lost.

Footnote 24:

Many words have been lost (three separate lacunae).

Footnote 25:

Reading διεκώλυεν for διακούων.

Footnote 26:

Supplying προσδοκῶν, as Ed. Teub.

Footnote 27:

Many words are here lost, to the general effect of those in the
brackets.

Footnote 28:

i. e. each of the four sides of each of the six faces. The Greek word
for ‘side’ and ‘face’ is the same.

Footnote 29:

This problem (mentioned by Plutarch also in the _E at Delphi_, see p.
63) was in fact solved by Menaechmus, a pupil of Eudoxus, through
Conic Sections, and also by Archytas, whose method is much more
elaborate. See Preface, p. xiv.

Footnote 30:

_Il._ 10, 279; _Od._ 13, 300-1.

Footnote 31:

_Il._ 20, 95.

Footnote 32:

συμπιέσας for the MSS. reading συμπείσας (Reiske).

Footnote 33:

πταρμὸς ἤ (Ed. Teub.), for ἐφαρμόσει, is attractive, but it seems
better not to anticipate the word.

Footnote 34:

ἐπὶ ῥειτοῖς is K. O. Müller’s reading for ἐπὶ ρητις της of the MSS.
See Wordsworth’s _Athens and Attica_, p. 9.

Footnote 35:

Fr. 284 (the well-known fragment of the _Autolycus_ about Athletes) l.
22.

Footnote 36:

Cp. _Od._ 1, 170, &c.

Footnote 37:

_Od._ 1, 27.

Footnote 38:

See _Life of Nicias_, c. 3.

Footnote 39:

Aeschylus, _Prometheus_, 545.

Footnote 40:

Cp. Bacchylides, Fr. 37 (_Life of Numa_, c. 4): ‘Broad is the road’,
i. e. ‘there is room for divergent opinions.’

Footnote 41:

Compare _Life of Coriolanus_, c. 32, p. 229, with this difficult
passage.

Footnote 42:

Of the participle so translated only the termination remains. Reiske’s
μεταλλευόντων well completes this fine image.

Footnote 43:

This word is not in the Greek text.

Footnote 44:

See note on the Myths of Plutarch, p. 315.

Footnote 45:

Lucian (Musc. Encom. c. 7) tells the same story of Hermodorus.
Plutarch has probably made a slip, as elsewhere, in names. See p. 99.

Footnote 46:

_Il._ 7, 44-5.

Footnote 47:

l. 53.

Footnote 48:

i. e. in the Wooden Horse, _Od._ 11, 526-32.

Footnote 49:

Perhaps rather ‘the Laconizing party’, as the Teubner editor suggests.

THREE PYTHIAN DIALOGUES