HERODOTUS

BOOK VIII. 106-107mine; now if you will bring your household anddwell here, I will make you prosperous in return,"promising this and that ;Panionius accepted hisoffer gladly, and brought his children and his wife.But Hermotimus, having got the man and all hishousehold in his power, said to him " Tell : me,you that have made a livelihood out of the wickedesttrade on earth ! what harm had I or any of my forefathersdone to you, to you or yours, that you mademe to be no man, but a thing of nought ? ay, youthought that the gods would have no knowledge ofyour devices of old ;but their just law has broughtyou for your wicked deeds into my hands, and nowyou shall be well content with the fulness of thatjustice which I will execute upon you." With thesewords of reproach, he brought Panionius' sons beforehim and compelled him to castrate all four of them,his own children ;this Panionius was compelled todo ;which done, the sons were compelled to castratetheir father in turn. Thus was Panionius overtakenby vengeance and by Hermotimus.107. Having given his sons to Artemisia's chargeto be carried to Ephesus, Xerxes called Mardoniusto him and bade him choose out whom he wouldfrom the army, and make his words good so far asendeavour availed. For that day matters went thusfar; in the night, the admirals by the king's commandput out to sea from Phalerum and made forthe Hellespont again with all speed, to guard thebridges for the king's passage. When the foreignerscame near to the " Girdle" 1 in their course, theythought that certain little headlands, which here jut1A promontory on the west coast of Attica, betweenPiraeus and Sunium,107