Stylistic features
The name of someone's father
What is a patronymic
πλούτῳ
Location of Nitocris' tomb
What is above the busiest gates of the city
Queen of Babylon
Who is Nitocris
Putting a word at the beginning of a sentence/clause
What is promotion
Comparison including 'as/like'
Simile
ἐπίγαμοι
What is 'ready for marriage'
The way they Babylonians could have caught the Persians
What is As in a fish trap
Greedy Persian King
Who is Darius
Repetition of sounds
What is Tautology, hendiadys
ἐξ ἀπροσδοκήτου
unexpectedly
The ones who normally would decide who a girl marries
What is their fathers
Daughter of Clesithenes
Who is Agariste
Most boring way to introduce a point
A trio of things expressed in parallel
What is a tricolon
ἐνεκόλαψε
100 of these were sacrificed
Son of Tisander
Who is Hippocleides
pseudo-fancy word for indicates
What is connotes
Words set unusually in a sentence (far apart, surrounding, delayed, promoted out of the norm)
hyperbaton
αἰσχροκρεδής
what is 'avaricious'
The gift for the losing suitors (including equivalent weight in kg)
What is 1 talent of silver (30 kg)
Man who visited Croesus
Who is Alcmaeon
Vivid description
What is word painting?