baehr

Updated: May 7, 2025

This wider meaning should be attached to certain passages in Herodotus, which have been generally interpreted 'commanding the sea, or by the mere titular and honorific 'having the dominion of the sea. One editor of Herodotus, Ch. F. Baehr, did, however, see exactly what was meant, for, with reference to the allusion to Polycrates, he says, classemaximumvaluit.

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