10-07-2021, 03:06 PM
(10-07-2021, 10:45 AM)Hanny Wrote: https://www.reed.edu/humanities/hum110/Hdt/Hdt7.html
H account has it.
Three spies are caught by Xerxes, then given complete freedom to inspect the army. Xerxes' reasons for so doing.
Delbruk on page 382*is referencing Roman account by Ennius, of a re use of H acount of 3 spies, to three spies scipio catches. Sculard looks at this on page 234 and gives you where to look for linkage **
* https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MP2k...us&f=false
** https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KeM8...us&f=false
This is where there should be more focus and analysis on Scipio`s reasons for concealing the arrival of Massinissa.
Context !
