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Athenians, on the contrary, say when the deity destroyed it;
and that this one did not survive, but perished in the following
manner: On his return to Athens he gave an account of
the disaster, and the wives of the men who had gone on the
expedition against iEgina, when they heard it, being enraged
that he alone of the whole number should be saved, crowded
round this man, and, piercing him with the clasps of their
garments, each asked him where her own husband was ; thus
he died. This action of the women seemed to the Athenians
more dreadful than the disaster itself; however, they had no
they therefore compelled
other way of punishing the women :
them to change their dress for the Ionian. For before that
time the wives of the Athenians wore the Dorian dress, which
nearly resembles the Corinthian ; they changed it, therefore,
for a linen tunic, that they might not use clasps. Yet if we
follow the truth, this garment is not originally Ionian, but
Carian ; for the whole ancient Grecian dress of the women was
the same as that which we now call Dorian. In consequence
of this event it became a custom with both the Argives and
the iEginetae to do this : to make their clasps one half larger
than the measure before established, and that the women
should chiefly dedicate clasps in the temple of these deities
and to bring no other Attic article within the temple, not even
a pitcher ; but a law was made that they should drink there in
future from vessels of their own country. Accordingly, from
that time the wives of the Argives and iEginetae, on account
of their quarrel with the Athenians, continued even to my
time to wear clasps larger than formerly.
The origin of the enmity entertained by the Athenians
against the ^Eginetae was such as has been described. At
that time, therefore, when the Thebans called upon them, the
vEginetse, recalling to mind what had taken place respecting
the statues, readily assisted the Boeotians. The yEginetae
therefore laid waste the maritime places of Attica, and when
the Athenians were preparing to march against the /Eginetae,
an oracle came from Delphi enjoining them " to wait for thirty
years from the period of the injury committed by the /Eginetas
and in the thirty-first year, after building a temple to /Eacus,
to begin the war against the /Eginetae : and then they would
succeed according to their wishes. But if they should march
against them immediately, they should in the meanwhile en-
but in the end would sub-
dure much and also inflict much ;
due them." When the Athenians heard this answer reported,
they erected that temple to /Eacus which now stands in the
forum ; yet they could not bear to wait thirty years when they
;