Note 310 — Chapter II · Athens
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Nic. Dam. frag. 71, F.H.G. III. p. 413, gives the same story, but calls the woman a Thracian and the king Alyattes. Macan, ad Hdt. V. 12 (cp. ibid. (Hdt. IV.-VI.), app. IV. sect. 7) thinks we probably have a local story transferred to Darius; but the transport of Thracians to Asia, recorded also by Nic. Dam., suggests rather that Hdt. is right in attaching the story to Darius. The Lydian king of the Nic. Dam. version is perhaps due to Sardis being the scene of the story.