*ga/mbreios stolh/.
The phrase almost occurs in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 1.29F-30A (1.54 Kaibel): "
Themistocles received as a present from the King [of Persia] Lampsacus for wine,
Magnesia for bread,
Myus for fish, and Percote and Palaescepsis for bedding and clothing. And he also told him to wear non-Greek garb, like Demaratus, adding Gambreion to the previously-existing grants for garb on condition that he never again wore a Greek cloak."
The sources on this topic - how the Persians rewarded their one-time enemy
Themistocles of
Athens once he had fled Greece and taken refuge with them in the 460s BCE - fall into two groups.
Thucydides 1.138 (followed by
Diodorus, Nepos,
Strabo and others) has only Lampsacus,
Magnesia and
Myus;
Plutarch,
Themistocles 29 (citing two earlier authorities), adds Percote and Palaescepsis. But only the unnamed source of
Athenaeus adds Gambreion (a city in the valley of the R.
Kaikos, E of Pergamum). This is almost certainly a mistake, since
Xenophon (
Hellenica 3.1.6) explicitly mentions Gambreion in a list of cities of the region already allocated to another benefactor of Persia, Gongylos of
Eretria. See A.J. Podlecki,
The Life of Themistocles (Montreal 1975) 129 with n.134.
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