s afterwards called {prophetes}.]

106 [ Cp. v. 21.]

107 [ Some Editors would read "Alabastra." Alabanda was a Carian town.]

108 [ Counting Alexander himself as one.]

109 [ {esan gar}: this is the reading of the best MSS.: others have
{esan de}. Stein (reading {esan gar}) places this clause after the next,
"The wife of the king herself baked their bread, for in ancient times,
etc." This transposition is unnecessary; for it would be easy to
understand it as a comment on the statement that three members of the
royal house of Argos became farm-servants.]

110 [ {ai turannides ton anthropon}.]

111 [ {exaireton metaikhmion te ten gun ektemenon}: there are variations
of reading and punctuation in the MSS.]

112 [ {sunepipte oste omou spheon ginesthai ten katastasin}, i.e. their
introduction before the assembly, cp. iii. 46.]

113 [ {epeximen amunomenoi}, which possibly might be translated, "we
will continue to defend ourselves."]

114 [ {karta anthropeion}.]

BOOK IX. THE NINTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED CALLIOPE

1. Mardonios, when Alexander had returned back and had signified to him
that which was said by the Athenians, set forth from Thessaly and began
to lead his army with all diligence towards Athens: and to whatever land
he came, he took up with him the people of that land. The leaders
of Thessaly meanwhile did not repent of all that which had been done
already, but on the contrary they urged on the Persian yet much more;
and Thorax of Larissa had joined in escorting Xerxes in his flight and
at this time he openly offered Mardonios passage to invade Hellas..

2. Then when the army in its march came to Boeotia, the Thebans
endeavoured to detain Mardonios, and counselled him saying that there
was no region more convenient for him to have his encampment than that;
and they urged him not to advance further, but to sit down there and
endeavour to subdue to himself the whole of Hellas without fighting: for
to overcome the Hellenes by open force when they were united, as at the
former time they were of one accord together, 1 was a difficult task
even for the whole world combined, "but," they proceeded, "if thou wilt
do that which we advise, with little labour thou wilt have in thy power
all their plans of resistance. 2 Send money to the men who have power in
their cities, and thus sending thou wilt divide Hellas into two parties:
after that thou wilt with ease subdue by the help of thy party those w