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The Cabalians of Herodotus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

W. Arkwright
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In Herodotus iii. 90, in the second satrapy, along with the Mysians and Lydians, are included the Lasonians and the Cabalians and the ’ϒγϵννϵȋς. A distinction is made between the Lasonians and the Cabalians. In vii. 76–77, three tribes are commanded in the army of Xerxes by Badres, son of Hystanes. The first name has dropped out, the second people are the Maeonian Cabalians who are called Lasonians, the third are the Milyae. The words Καβηλέϵς οἱ Μηΐονϵς seem to make a distinction between the Lasonians and other Cabalians who are not Maeonians. Probably therefore the missing name in ch. 76 is Καβηλέϵς, omitted by copyists under the impression that the same people were being counted twice over. But the historian really meant to distinguish between the native Cabalians and the Lasonians who were of Maeonian origin and presumably immigrants. Accordingly in iii. 90, instead of Λασονίων καὶ Καβαλίων καὶ ’ϒγϵννέων, we should perhaps read Λασονίων καὶ Καβαλίων ἐγγϵνέων.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 34 , November 1914 , pp. 64 - 65
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1914

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1 He commanded all three nations, τούτων πάντων ἧρχε. When only two nations were joined under one commander, as the Phrygians and Armenians (ch. 73), Herodotus says τούτων συναμφοτέρων ἦρχϵ Ἀρτόχμης, The three tribes were therefore neighbours.

2 Cf. Αἰγύπτιοι ἐγγενέες, ii. 47. ῾᾿γτεννα πόλις Λυκίας (St. Byz.) seems to be ᾿´Ετεννα in Pamphylia. Towns in the Roman Lycia-Pamphylia are often called Lycian, e.g. Μενεδήμιον. If Stephanus preserves one of the numerous ancient emendations (see Baehr, Herod, vol. iv. pp. 467, 488, etc.) it is in that case unsound, for Etenna must have been in the first satrapy, like Milyas which cut it off from the second; see Arrian, i. 24, 5, and Strabo, p. 631: cf. Polybius, v. 72, 5.

3 See Eratosthenes (Pliny, v. 30). The Solymi of Choerilus are a fiction (see Petersen in Lanckoronski, Villes de la Pamphylie, etc. ii. 5). They have no separate existence except in Homer, where they are no more historical than Bellerophon's other opponents, the Amazons and the Chimaera. They were probably native deities.