The Royal Road in Herodotus

were 'an additional ornament* to the party, which consisted in the main of Atax/Hot proper. Plutarch, in similar words, says iv ol? f/v i drrrucb? oxKos. 'Ei> oh can. here only mean that the O was one element in the party. 3. The contention that ' there can be no question that the mines (of Laurium) were worked in the sixth century' (p. 47) is based admittedly upon no evidence at all except negative evidence and upon the belief, which we have seen cannot be maintained, that the Aidicpioi,