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[182] {meden allo neokhmoun kata Barkaious}: cp. v. 19.[183] {paralabontes}.[184] {epiphthonoi}.VOLUME II{e Herodotou diathesis en apasin epieikes, kai tois men agathoissunedomene, tois de kakois sunalgousa}.--Dion. Halic.PREPARER'S NOTEThis text was prepared from the third edition, printed in 1914, byMacMillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, London.Greek text has been transliterated and marked with brackets, as inthe opening citation above.BOOK VTHE FIFTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED TERPSICHORE1. In the meantime those of the Persians who had been left behind inEurope by Dareios, of whom Megabazos was the commander, had subduedthe people of Perinthos first of the Hellespontians, since theyrefused to be subject to Dareios. These had in former times also beenhardly dealt with by the Paionians: for the Paionians from the Strymonhad been commanded by an oracle of their god to march against thePerinthians; and if the Perinthians, when encamped opposite to them,should shout aloud and call to them by their name, they were to attackthem; but if they should not shout to them, they were not to attackthem: and thus the Paionians proceeded to do. Now when the Perinthianswere encamped opposite to them in the suburb of their city, achallenge was made and a single combat took place in three differentforms; for they matched a man against a man, and a horse against a