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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HERODOTUS. BOOK VI.?ERATO. Chap. I. Such was the fate of Aristagoras, the instigator of the Ionian revolt. Histiaeus of Miletus, as soon as Darius had acquiesced in his departure from Susa, proceeded to Sardis. On his arrival, Ar- taphernes, the governor, asked him what he thought could possibly have induced the lonians to revolt. He expressed himself ignorant of the cause, and astonished at the event. Artaphernes, however, who had been informed of his preceding artifice, and was sensible of his present dissimulation, observed to him that the matter might be thus explained: You, said he, made the shoe which Aristagoras has worn. II. Histiaeus, perceiving himself suspected, fled the very first night towards the sea: and, instead of I have given a literal translation from the Greek; but M. Larcher, thinking, perhaps, the expression somewhat inclining to vulgarity, has rendered it thus: You contrived the plot which he has executed. Not very unlike this phrase used by the Persian to Aristagoras is our English one of standing in another person's shoes; which perhaps may be traced to times more remote than may at first be imagined. When the Greeks reclined on their couches at meals and entertainments they pulled off their sandals; if any one, on any occasion, wanted to leave the apartment, he put them on again. Therefore, says the poet, I do that with respect to your manners, as a man does at an entertainment, who, wanting to go out of the room, uses another person's sandals. It would by no means be an uninteresting work to trace the meaning of our proverbial expressions to their remotest application: for my own part, I am well convinced that more of them might be discovered in the customs and languages of Greece and Rome than an English antiquary would at first, p...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217483629 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217483623 |
| Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.16 In |
| List Price | $21.05 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 66 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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