[923] This is a verse from one of the lost tragedies of Euripides. It is also quoted by Cicero (De Divin., ii. 5): Est quidam Graecus vulgaris in hanc sententiam versus; bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.
[924] See Herodotus (i. 32); Plutarch (Solon, 27).
[925] See p. 171, note [430]. Herodotus (i. 181) gives a description of this temple, which he says existed in his time. Strabo (xvi. 1) agrees with Arrian that it was said to have been destroyed by Xerxes. He also says that Alexander employed 10,000 men in clearing away the rubbish of the ruins. Professor Sayce and others adduce this passage of Arrian to prove that Herodotus is not to be trusted even when he says he had seen the places and things which he describes. The words of Herodotus are ἐς ἐμὲ τοῦτο ἔτι ἐόν, meaning, not that he had himself seen the temple, but that it existed till his time. In chap. 183 he expressly states that he did not see other things which he is describing, but that he derived his information from the Chaldaeans. He was about twenty years of age when Xerxes was assassinated. It must not be forgotten that Strabo and Arrian lived five or six hundred years after Xerxes. The veracity of Strabo is never doubted; yet in his description of Babylon this author speaks of the walls and hanging gardens as if they were still in existence, though not expressly saying so.
[926] Cf. Arrian, iii. 16 supra.
[927] See Arrian, iii. 16 supra.
[928] Cf. Philostratus (Life of Apollonius, viii. 7, 5).
[929] Perdiccas was killed by his own troops at Memphis, B.C. 321. See Diodorus, xviii. 36.
[930] The battle of Ipsus was fought B.C. 301. See Plutarch (Demetrius, 29).
[931] Diodorus (xvii. 113) says that embassies came from the Carthaginians, Liby-Phoenicians, Greeks, Macedonians, Illyrians, Thracians, and Gauls.
[932] Cf. Arrian, iii. 16 supra.