Note 603 — Chapter XXXVI · FROM THE IONIC REVOLT TO THE BATTLE OF MARATHON.
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Herodot. vi, 77.
Ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἡ θηλεῖα τὸν ἄρσενα νικήσασα Ἐξελάσῃ, καὶ κῦδος ἐν Ἀργείοισιν ἄρηται, etc.
If this prophecy can be said to have any distinct meaning, it probably refers to Hêrê, as protectress of Argos, repulsing the Spartans.
Pausanias (ii, 20, 7) might well doubt whether Herodotus understood this oracle in the same sense as he did: it is plain that Herodotus could not have so understood it.