History of the Wars, Books I and II: The Persian War

but some say that the soldiers were not the first to do this, but that while they were still hesitating in the courtyard and trembling at the danger, a certain sausage-vendor who was with them rushed in with his cleaver and meeting John smote him unexpectedly. But the blow which had been dealt him was not a fatal one, this account goes on to say, and he fled with a great outcry and suddenly fell among these very soldiers. Thus they laid hands upon the man and immediately set fire to the palace and burned it, in order that there might be left no hope from there for those making revolutions; and John they led away to the prison and bound. And one of them, fearing lest the soldiers, upon learning that the tyrant survived, might again make trouble for the city, killed John, and in this way stopped the confusion. Such, then, was the progress of events touching this tyranny. FOOTNOTES: [1]

Cf. Iliad xi. 385 [Greek: toxota, lobeter, kerai aglae, parthenopipa], the only place where [Greek: toxotes] occurs in Homer. [2]

Cf. Iliad v. 192. [3]

Cf. Iliad viii. 267; xi. 371. [4]

Cf. Iliad iv. 113. [5]

Cf. Iliad iv. 123. [6]

Cf. Iliad xi. 390. [7]

The trench crossed the plain in an approximately straight line. The army of the Ephthalitae were drawn up behind it, facing the advancing Persians, while a few of them went out beyond the trench to draw the attack of the Persians. [8]

Cf. Thuc. ii. 76, 4. [9]

Cf. Book VII. xxvi. 4. [10]

Cf. Thuc. i. 128. [11]

A division of no fixed number. [12]

Cf. Book I. ii. 15. [13]

Modern Erzeroum. [14]

i.e. "by force."

[15]

Cf. Book VIII. xiii. 15. [16]

Cf. Iliad xxiv. 348; Odyssey x. 279. [17]

Lebanon. [18]

Roman formation. a--a, trench.

1. Bouzes and Pharas. 2. Sunicas and Aigan. 3. John, Cyril, Marcellus, Germanus, and Dorotheus. 4. Simmas and Ascan. 5. Belisarius and Hermogenes. 1. 3. (h)======= |----| =========== hill 2.--| 5. |--4. a_________| |_________a =================

[19]

Cf. Book I. x. 2. [20]

Cf. Book I. xii. 21. [21]

Cf. Book I. xiii. 2. [22]

"Euphratesia"; cf. section 2. [23]

Title meaning a patrician. See Index. [24]

Ch. xiv. 28-54. [25]

The coast described here is that of Arabia. [26]

Rather the "Arabian Gulf."

[27]

Cf. ch. xv. 31. [28]

In Latin serica, as coming from the Chinese (Seres). [29]

Cf. chap. xvi. 7. [30]

Cf. Book II. xvii. [31]

i.e. "Conquer."

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