NOTES, BOOK 1: 11. 225
kept,’ because he will be in 110 danger on account of the
depressed state of his subjects. Neither explanation is satis-
f.,ctory; there is a balance of difficulties.;vneipnra riv K+hLai)Y K.7.i. 11.9.
See Herod. i. 14.
Florence in the fifteenth century, and Paris in the nineteenth,
Tyitness to a similar policy.7iu nfpi ZdpOV ?pyfl ~OklJKpl~TfLa. 11.9.
Lit. and among ’ or ‘ of the buildings of Samos the works of
Polycrates.’ Among these splendid works an artificial mountain con-
taining a tunnel forming an aqueduct, a mole in front of the harbour,
and the greatest temple known, are commemorated in Herod. iii. 60,
but he does not expressly attribute them to Polycrates.a; rj fla+opb ri)u rcki)v, ob iv &pmAuars E)u n&rC ybp &curu ~‘n; 11. IO.
3towaiou i;v olkTiau iii;nuflv fiufvpvoXivar uuucpLlLYfv.
Compare a story equally incredible told of Cypselus in the
pswdo-Aristotelian Oeconomics ii. 1346 a. 32 : Cypselus the
Corinthian made a vo\v that if he ever became lord of the city he
\iould consecrate to Zeus the whole wealth of the citizens, SO he
bade them register themselves, and when they were registered he
tuok from them a tithe of their property and told them to go on
\orking with the remainder, Each year he did the like; the result
\US that at the end of ten years he got into his possession all
\Vhich he had consecrated ; the Corinthians meanwhile had gained
bther property.’
There are several similar legends respecting Dionysius himself
recorded in the Oecononiics, such as the story of his collecting
the nomen’s ornaments, and after consecrating them to Demeter
Icnding them to himself, 1349 a. 14 ; or of his taking the money
of the orphans and using it while they were under age, ib. b. 15 ;
Or of his imposition of a new cattle-tax, after he had induced his
subcts to purchase cattle by the abolition of the tax, ib. b. 6.
The fertile imagination of the Greeks was a good deal occupied
IVith illventions about the tyrants; the examples given throw a
kiit upon the character of such narratives.
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