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VARIOUS STATUES.
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returned, and, as we have before mentioned, there was a monument to
him before the Gate Melitides. It is hardly necessary to observe that
this account of the death of Thucydides varies from that of other
authorities.
Pausanias merely gives a few passing words to the statues of Hermo-
lycus, the pancratiast, and Phormio, son of Asopichus, as they had
been described by others. This Hermolycus is of course a very
different person from the Hermolycus son of Dieitrephes before-men-
tioned ; and it is not improbable that he may have been the pancratiast
mentioned by Herodotus,1 an Athenian, and son of Euythynus, who
distinguished himself at the battle of Mycale. Of Phormio, son of
Asopichus,2 Pausanias relates that being in debt, and having been
chosen vavapxps, or admiral, he refused to serve, alleging, that in his
situation, he should not have the spirit to command his men. Where-
upon the Athenians discharged his debts.
Pausanias next mentions (c. 24, 1) a statue of Athena striking the
Silenus, Marsyas, for picking up the pipes which she had thrown away.
Further on was Theseus contending with the Minotaur. Then Phrixus,
son of Athamas, sacrificing the ram which had carried him to Cholcis;
Pausanias knew not exactly to what god, but thought it might be to
him, whom the Orchomenians called Laphystius.3 Having cut out the
when in general to approach a capital is
expressed by going up. But especially is
it used, as here, of the return of exiles.
This remark may be deemed superfluous;
but want of attention to this point has
misled Leake, who, translating kcMoSo?
by departure, instead of return, draws
from it a wrong historical inference. Thus
he represents Philochorus (ap. Dionys.
Hal. in Deinarch. c. 3) as interpreting the
portent of a star seen from the sanctuary
of Polias as portending " a departure of
exiles ((j>vyaSav Kadobuv) not in conse-
quence of any revolution, but from political
considerations (ovk « /ierajSoAijs irpaypa-
rav, oXX' iv Ttj KaBfaruHrn noXirfig). In
fact, soon after the restoration of liberty to
Athens by Demetrius Polioreetes, many
citizens expatriated themselves in conse-
quence of the part which they had pre-
viously taken."—vol. i. p. 579, note 3.
Where " from political considerations " is
another mistranslation for " under the ex-
isting government, or state of things."
1 ix. 105.
2 Thucydides and the scholiast on the
'Pax' of Aristophanes, v. 347, call him
son of Asopius, Thucyd. i. 64; cf. Diod.
Sic. xxxvii. 47. The name Asopichus
occurs in Pindar, 01. xiv. 25.
3 See Paus. ix. 34, 4; cf. Muller, Orcho-
menos, s. vii. p. 156 sqq.
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385
returned, and, as we have before mentioned, there was a monument to
him before the Gate Melitides. It is hardly necessary to observe that
this account of the death of Thucydides varies from that of other
authorities.
Pausanias merely gives a few passing words to the statues of Hermo-
lycus, the pancratiast, and Phormio, son of Asopichus, as they had
been described by others. This Hermolycus is of course a very
different person from the Hermolycus son of Dieitrephes before-men-
tioned ; and it is not improbable that he may have been the pancratiast
mentioned by Herodotus,1 an Athenian, and son of Euythynus, who
distinguished himself at the battle of Mycale. Of Phormio, son of
Asopichus,2 Pausanias relates that being in debt, and having been
chosen vavapxps, or admiral, he refused to serve, alleging, that in his
situation, he should not have the spirit to command his men. Where-
upon the Athenians discharged his debts.
Pausanias next mentions (c. 24, 1) a statue of Athena striking the
Silenus, Marsyas, for picking up the pipes which she had thrown away.
Further on was Theseus contending with the Minotaur. Then Phrixus,
son of Athamas, sacrificing the ram which had carried him to Cholcis;
Pausanias knew not exactly to what god, but thought it might be to
him, whom the Orchomenians called Laphystius.3 Having cut out the
when in general to approach a capital is
expressed by going up. But especially is
it used, as here, of the return of exiles.
This remark may be deemed superfluous;
but want of attention to this point has
misled Leake, who, translating kcMoSo?
by departure, instead of return, draws
from it a wrong historical inference. Thus
he represents Philochorus (ap. Dionys.
Hal. in Deinarch. c. 3) as interpreting the
portent of a star seen from the sanctuary
of Polias as portending " a departure of
exiles ((j>vyaSav Kadobuv) not in conse-
quence of any revolution, but from political
considerations (ovk « /ierajSoAijs irpaypa-
rav, oXX' iv Ttj KaBfaruHrn noXirfig). In
fact, soon after the restoration of liberty to
Athens by Demetrius Polioreetes, many
citizens expatriated themselves in conse-
quence of the part which they had pre-
viously taken."—vol. i. p. 579, note 3.
Where " from political considerations " is
another mistranslation for " under the ex-
isting government, or state of things."
1 ix. 105.
2 Thucydides and the scholiast on the
'Pax' of Aristophanes, v. 347, call him
son of Asopius, Thucyd. i. 64; cf. Diod.
Sic. xxxvii. 47. The name Asopichus
occurs in Pindar, 01. xiv. 25.
3 See Paus. ix. 34, 4; cf. Muller, Orcho-
menos, s. vii. p. 156 sqq.
2 c