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On Herodotus 7.183: Three Sound Ships For Salamis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

James N. O'Sullivan
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Extract

Of the ten ships of the barbarians three the reef that is between Sciathus and Magnesia and is called the Ant. When the barbarians had brought to the reef and set up there a pillar of stone, they themselves set out from Therma, as the way ahead had now been made clear for them, and sailed on with all their ships, having let eleven days pass since the king's departure from Therma. The reef, which was right in their course, had been pointed out to them by Pammon, a Scyrian.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1977

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References

1 The only exception, or seeming exception, known to me is in Achilles Tatius 1.12.2 but here the subject should be the rider (the subject of and) and we should read

2 Schweighäuser, J., Lexicon Herodoteum (Strasbourg, 1824), s.v.Google Scholar

3 Hdt. 7.179.

4 For the very rare see LSJ and LSJ Suppl. s.v..

5 Cf. C. Hude's analysis (in the preface to his Oxford text of Hdt., p. ix n.l): ‘Documento et rationis quae codicibus huius (Romanae) stirpis inter se intercedit et bonitatis cuiusque sit locus q.e. VII 183, 2, ubi vera scriptura (ABCP) in archetypo alterius stirpis in (D) abierat, unde in R, quae quidem scriptura correctorem prodit, in SV vero factum est.’ My own reconstruction is, of course, tentative, but due attention should be given to the fact that the text was certainly tampered with repeatedly and to the intrinsic merit of