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ὅρμηται, ‘has gone abroad’ (λέγεσθαι is epexegetic); cf. iv. 161.

ἐς τὴν Ἀσίην: gives one reason why H. lays so much stress on ‘this first expedition’; it was part of the long struggle between Europe and Asia. The ‘second’ is that of 479 B. C. (ix. 96 seq.). The addition of ‘Dorians’ is emphatic; the Achaean Lacedaemonians had taken part in the Trojan war.


καταχρυσώσαντα: cf. for ‘gilded’ κίβδηλοι στατῆρες C. I. G. i. 150, p. 237.

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