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[2] It was just that the wrath of
Talthybius descended on ambassadors, nor abated until it was satisfied. The venting of it, however, on the sons of those men who went up to the king to appease it, namely on
Nicolas son of
Bulis and
Aneristus son of
Sperthias (that
Aneristus who landed a merchant ships crew at the
Tirynthian settlement of
Halia and took it),
1
makes it plain to me that this was the divine result of
Talthybius' anger.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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