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μαντήιον. This oracle must surely have been given when Aegina was finally conquered, or at least when Athens was bent on the conquest (458-457 B. C.). If so, the thirty years must be reckoned from that epoch, which takes us back to 488-487 B. C., the probable date of the Aeginetan war, misplaced by H. before 490 B. C. (vi. 87 f.). Athens could hardly have meditated the conquest of Aegina before Marathon, and before the building of her great navy. H. is probably guilty of an anachronism in dating the project and the oracle before the Ionic revolt (Macan, Appendix VIII, § 3; WilamowitzMöllendorff, A. and A. ii. 281).

ἀδικίου. H. reproduces the Athenian colouring of his source by using a term elsewhere only found in Attic legal proceedings.

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