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δίγλωσσον like the Carian Mus sent by Mardonius in Hdt. viii. 133-135, and the interpreter Pigres in Xen. Anab. i. 2, 17. The epithet implies that both languages were spoken naturally and equally well. Cf. iv. 109, οἰκοῦνται ξυμμίκτοις ἔθνεσι βαρβάρων διγλώσσων. τοὺς Μιγ. πορευομένους i.e. an embassy from them. Jowett compares i. 31, where a whole people is similarly identified with its representatives. πορευομένους = ‘were on their way.’ μάλιστα with ἐπὶ καταβοῇ κ.τ.λ., ‘chiefly to decry himself.’ Ἑρμοκράτη who had all along resisted Tissaphernes. Cf. c. 45, § 3.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 8. T.G. Tucker. London. MacMillan & Company. 1892.
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