Essays And Studies Presented to William Ridgeway On His Sixtieth Birthday 6 a
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MAHAFFY easily be read as A and not A. Indeed in many papyri there is no difference in the letters. Reading A he thought naturally that it was absurd, and it occurred to him that it must be ^A, which is the symbol for 1000. But of course Thucydides had written A, ' the ringleaders who were put to death were little more than 30. ' In the same Thucydides (iv. 116) Brasidas offers the soldier who is the first to scale a fort the reward of thirty minae^ according to our texts. Thirty minae ! for a ...single act of bravery and from Brasidas ! As the soldier's daily pay was at the highest a drachma this reward means 30 x 100 or 3000 days pay. Was there ever anything more absurd ? Of course the text must have been either A or A, which latter is the alternative adopted by Gunion Rutherford in his edition of that book. I turn for a moment to Herodotus. He says (i. 72) that for the journey across Asia Minor at its narrowest, from the Syrian Gulf to the Black Sea, ei/^wVw dvlpl irevTe tj/mepai dvaKTLfxovvTai, which is absurd.
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