The history of Herodotus - Volume 2, Herodotus [book recommendations txt] 📗

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94. {tous irenas}. Spartans between twenty and thirty years old were
so called. The MSS. have {ireas}.

95. {proxeinon}.

96. "fill up more calamities," cp. v. 4.

97. {es antilogien}.

98. {antilogies kuresein}.

99. {ten mesogaian tamnon tes odou}, cp. vii. 124. The expression
seems almost equivalent to {tamnon ten mesen odon}, apart from any
question of inland or coast roads.

100. {limo sustantas kai kamato}, "having struggled with hunger and
fatigue."

101. {autos}: some MSS. read {outos}. If the text is right, it means
Artabazos as distinguished from his troops.

102. i.e. "leader of the army."

102a. {en to Ionio kolpo}.

103. Stein reads {para Khona potamon}, "by the river Chon," a
conjecture derived from Theognostus.

104. It is thought by some Editors that "the prophets" just above, and
these words, "and they told them," are interpolated.

105. {emphuton mantiken}, as opposed to the {entekhnos mantike}
possessed for example by Melampus, cp. ii. 49.

106. Or possibly "Calamoi."

107. i.e. 60,000.

107a. {ton Potneion}, i.e. either the Eumenides or Demeter and
Persephone.

108. {apistous toisi Ellesi}. Perhaps the last two words are to be
rejected, and {apistous} to be taken in its usual sense,
"distrusted"; cp. viii. 22.

109. {neokhmon an ti poieein}.

110. {pheme eseptato}.

111. {eteralkea}, cp. viii. 11.

112. {ton Perseon}: perhaps we should read {ek ton Perseon},
"appointed by the Persians to guard the passes."

113. {ti neokhmon poieoien}.

114. {ten kephalen smatai}: the meaning is uncertain.

115. {Pou de kou me apolesas}: some Editors read {ko} for {kou} (by
conjecture), and print the clause as a statement instead of a
question, "not yet hast thou caused by ruin."

116. {en to aduto}.

117. {aphuktos}: many Editors adopt the reading {aphulakto} from
inferior MSS., "they fell upon him when he was, as one may say,
off his guard."

118. {estergon ta pareonta}.

119. {ekpheugonta}: many Editors have {ekphugonta}, "after he had
escaped."

120. {tarikhos eon}. The word {tarikhos} suggests the idea of human
bodies embalmed, as well as of dried or salted meat.

121. {oi}: some Editors approve the conjecture {moi}, "impose upon
myself this penalty."

122. {sanidas}: some read by conjecture {sanidi}, or {pros sanida}:
cp. vii. 33.

123. Or, "when he had heard this, although he did not admire the
proposal, yet bade them do so if they would."


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Translator George Campbell Macaulay