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Headword:
Themistoklês
Adler number: theta,125
Translated headword: Themistocles, Themistokles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A general of the Athenians.[1] He was victorious against the barbarians in the sea-battle at
Salamis. Later on he was exiled by the Athenians on a false charge of treason. He fled to Artaxerxes, the son of Xerxes of Persia, and was handsomely rewarded by him, receiving three cities to supply his meat, bread, and wine--
Magnesia, Myous, and
Lampsakos.[2] He promised to enslave Greece to Artaxerxes[3], if he had the resources. But he was with the army in
Magnesia and--condemning himself if the Greeks, who had been saved with his help, should be subject to barbarians because of him--using as a pretext that he wanted to make an offering and sacrifice to Artemis Leucophryene, he put a bowl under the sacrificial bull and caught up the blood. He drank it greedily and died.[4]
Themistoklês, stratêgos Athênaiôn, ho katanaumachêsas en têi peri Salamina naumachiai tous barbarous, eith' husteron phugadeutheis hupo tôn Athênaiôn epi prodosias aitiai pseudei, kataphugôn pros Artaxerxên, ton Xerxou tou Persou paida, kai timêtheis ta megista par' autou, hôs treis poleis eis opson kai arton kai poton labein, Magnêsian, Muounta, Lampsakon. epêngeilato oun tou katadoulôsasthai tên Hellada, dunamin ei laboi. paragenomenos de hama tôi strateumati eis Magnêsian, katagnous heautou, ei di' auton sôthentes Hellênes di' autou douleusousi barbarois, prophasei chrêsamenos, hôs thusian epitelesai bouletai kai hierourgêsai têi Leukophruïnôn Artemidi, tôi taurôi hupotheis tên phialên kai hupodexamenos to haima, chandon piôn eteleutêsen.
Notes:
See already
theta 124 (and again
theta 126). The present material comes from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 84, where he is mentioned.
[1] No. 2901 in Index I of Robert Develin,
Athenian Officials 684-321 B.C. (Cambridge, 1989).
[2] cf.
Thucydides 1.138.5; Cornelius Nepos,
Themistocles 10.3;
Plutarch,
Themistocles 29.
[3]
e)phggei/lato ou)=n tou= katadoulw/sasqai. The
ou)=n tou= is presumably a corruption of
au)tw=| in the Aristophanic scholion, and is translated as such here.
[4] On Themistokles' death cf.
Aristophanes,
Knights 83-84;
Diodorus Siculus 11.58.3. According to
Thucydides 1.138.4 he died of illness.
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 12 August 1999@18:52:48.
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