Literary Record Details

Author: HERODOTUS Hist.

Opus: Historiae
Reference: Hdt.3.83.2

Period: Early Classical

Genre: prose
Subgenre: historiography
Object:
Gender: m
Context: office

Greek Text: δεῖ ἕνα γε τινὰ ἡμέων βασιλέα γενέσθαι, ἤτοι κλήρῳ γε λαχόντα, ἢ ἐπιτρεψάντων τῷ Περσέων πλήθεϊ τὸν ἂν ἐκεῖνο ἕληται,

English Text: one of us must be made king (whether by lot, or entrusted with the office by the choice of the Persians

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Kleros 447, Hdt.3.83.2
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