HERODOTUS

INDEXSogdi, a people in the Persian empire, E. of the Oxus, theirtribute, in. 93; in Xerxes' army, vn. 66Soli, a town in Cyprus, its part in the Cyprian revolt, v. 110;siege and capture by the Persians, v. 115Solols, a promontory at the western extremity of Libya (perhapsCape Spartel), n. 32, iv. 43Solon, his Athenian legislation, I. 29, n. 177; his visit to Croesus,I. 29-33; his praise of a Cyprian ruler, v. 113Solymi, inhabitants of what was later Lycia,i. 173Sophanes, an Athenian, his exploits in Aegina, vi. 92, ix. 75;at Plataea, ix. 74Sosimenes, a man of Tenos, vin. 82Sostratus, an Aeginetan, his commercial success, iv. 152Spaco, Cyrus' Median foster-mother, i. 110Spargapises, son of Tomyris queen of the Massagetae, his captureby Cyrus and his suicide, i. 211-213Spargapithes, (1) king of the Agathyrsi, his murder of a Scythianking, iv. 78. (2) A king of Scythia, iv. 76Sparta, see LacedaemonSpercheus, a river in Malis, near Thermopylae, vn. 198, 228Sperthias, one of the two Spartans who volunteered to surrenderthemselves to Xerxes as atonement for the killing of Persianheralds, vn. 134Sphendalae, a deme in northern Attica, on Mardonius' routeinto Boeotia, ix. 15Stagirus, a Greek town in Chalcidice, on Xerxes' route, VII. 115Stentorid lake, in Thrace, on Xerxes' route, vn. 58Stenyclerus, in Messenia, scene of a battle between Spartans andMessenians, ix. 64Stesagoras, (1) grandfather of Miltiades the younger, vi. 34, 103.(2) Grandson of (1), vi. 103; his murder, vi. 38Stesenor, despot of Curium in Cyprus, his desertion to thePersians in the Cyprian revolt, v. 113Stesilaus, an Athenian general killed at Marathon, vi. 114Stratopeda (Camps), places on the Nile allotted by Psammetichusto lonians and Carians, n. 154Strattis, despot of Chios, with Darius' Scythian expedition, rv.138; Ionian plot against him, vin. 132Struchates, a Median tribe, i. 101Stryme, a Thasian town in Thrace, vn. 108Strymon, a river in Paeonia, Pisistratus' revenues thence, i. 64 ;Paeonians from the Strymon, v. 98; Xerxes' bridge over it,387