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237 Death of Paches. 237 Tai ce /car Alyaioio poov irXaTv XaiTnia (pepeaOrjv, Kal TTOTi Tciv Kpavadv Mo|/"07rmi/ cpafxerrji^' cajULcp o ayyeXcTrjv aXcTrmovo^ '^pyci Ha^i/To?, /mecripa fxiv 6i9 oXorjv Krjpa avvrjXaaaTYiv, TOia jmeVy w Kovpa^ ireirovYjKaTov' ay o ein iraTpav TjKeTOPf €v o avTa KeiaQov aTroCpOiimevaC ev c€ TTovoov aTTOvaaOov^ eirel ttoti aa/ua avvevvojv €vd€T0Vj, €9 /cXetra? lULvajua (jao(ppo(jvva^* TTUTpa^ /cat TToaioov TTfj/maTa TiaaiuevaS' Mr Jacobs remarks on this epigram (Animadv. Vol. iii. 1. p. 112.), Paches, cujus amores et supplicium in hoc epigr, enarrantur, missus est adversus Mitylenaeos anno quinto belli Peloponnesiaci 01. 88. 2. Ejus in Mitylenaeis tractandis le- nitatem et moderationem laudat Thucvd. iii. 28. Cf. Diodor. Sic. T. I. p. 515. (xii. 55.) Nee omnino quidquam est apud hisioricos quod historiae in hoc. epig. narratae fidem faciat, nisi fortasse quod Aristoteles tradit Polit. v. 4. (Schneid. 3.) bellum illud Mitylenaeorum adversus Athenienses a mulieribus eTTiKXripoi^ originem cepisse. Recte igitur Reiskius, p. 220. hanc historiam ad veteres fabellas amatorias, quas Milesias appellant, referendam esse censet. In the passage referred to Aristotle says : kol irepl M.LTvX^vrjv oe e^ einKXripcov GTaaevo^ yevofxevrj^ ttoXXwp eyeveTo cipx^ kukoov^ kul tov TroXefxov rod Trpo^ AOrjvaiov^j ev w Ua'^rj^ eXa/3e Trjv iroXiv avTiiov" TifioCpavov^ yap twv eviropvov tlvo^ KaTaXi7rovTo9 cvo Ov yarepas, o TrepLcoaOel^ kul ov Xaf3wv tol^ vlecriv avTOV Ao^- avopo^ Vp^G Tfj^ (TTaaeoo^^ kol tov^ AOrjvaiovs Trapoo^vve^ 7rp6^€i^o9 wv Trj^ TToXeco^. Schneider'*s note is : Thucydides III. 2, ubi narrat bellum a Pachete gestum et Mitylenen captam originem referens obiter haec posuit. Kal avraiv Mi- rvXfjvaicov Idea avope^ /cara crracnv irpo^evoi 'AOrjvaicjov /ixrjvvTal yiyvovrai T0T9 AOrjvaioi^. In Agathiae Epigr. Analectorum III. p. 64. narratur Pachetem in amorem incidisse duarum Mitylenaearum mulierum, Lamaxidis et Hellenidis, quarum maritos cum occidisset, eos secum abduxit, deinde ipse ab iis occisus. Forte hae sunt illae ipsae duae eirLKXripoi vir- gines de quibus noster narrat. Mr Plehn in the work above quoted, p. 61, observes: Schneiderus Agathiae narration! plus quam par est tribuere videtur. Merito Reiskius et Jacobsius