Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SIXTH BOOK, chapter 27

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27. In the meantime the Mercuries of stone throughout the whole city of Athens (now there were many of these of square stone set up by the law of the place, and many in the porches of private houses and in the temples) had in one night most of them their faces pared. [2] And no man knew who had done it; and yet great rewards out of the treasury had been propounded to the discoverers, and a decree made that if any man knew of any other profanation, he might boldly declare the same, were he citizen, stranger, or bondman. [3] And they took the fact exceedingly to heart as ominous to the expedition and done withal upon conspiracy for alteration of the state and dissolution of the democracy.

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 2.51
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2, 2.53
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5, 5.76
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.107
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.130
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE CASES
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
- Harper's, Pisander
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), E´RANI
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), GRAPHE
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- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 13.2
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Peloponnesian War and Athenian Life
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 6.60
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- LSJ, ἐργα^σ-ία
- LSJ, λαμβάνω
- LSJ, μήν-υτρον
- LSJ, οἰωνός
- LSJ, περι-κόπτω
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- LSJ, τετράγων-ος
- LSJ, ζητ-έω

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