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236 MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. I. Death of P aches. In Niebuhr's essay on Xenophon's Hellenics translated in the last number of this Museum, there is an allusion to the fate of Paches (p. 495), v/hich I would have explained to the reader if I had remembered from what source it was drawn. But the manner in which it was mentioned led me to imagine that what Niebuhr had found was something till then undiscovered, and thus deterred me from searching for it in any of the books to which I have access, and still more from attempting to recollect whether I had before seen or heard of it. Otherwise it might possibly have occurred to me that the anecdote is mentioned by Schneider in a note to Aristotle''s Polit. v. 3. My attention was accidentally drawn to this fact by a remark in an excellent little book, Plehn^s Leshiaca^ where Schneider is censured for mvins: too much credit to the story. Perhaps I cannot better make amends for my oversight than by laying before the reader the original authorities and some of the opinions which modern critics have exprest upon them. The passage to which Niebuhr evidently refers, and which his edition of the Byzantine Histo- rians had recently brought under his notice, is an epigram of Agathias, (57. in Niebuhr's ed. Anthol. Gr. Jacobs, Tom. iv. p. 34.) YjCTTTiv fxev iraTpa^ (peyyea Aea/SidSo^. OKKU h AOrjvaLrjcTL (jvv okKacriv evddhe KeXaa^ TOLV yLiTvXrjvaiav ydv aXawa^e nay^/9, Tav Kovpav aciKw^ ffpacraaro^ tco^ ce aupevi/ws
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