[30] The restoration of this passage from the notes has been particularly difficult. From the _Lect. on Anc. Hist._, vol. i. p. 234, it seems clear that Niebuhr had somewhere publicly expressed his opinion on the passage of Strabo above referred to; but I do not know where he has done so, and I have not been able to avail myself of anything except the notes taken in the lecture-room, some of which are very good. I am firmly persuaded that Niebuhr uttered the words as they are given in the text, though his opinion differs from that now generally adopted, which is based upon the restoration of the text of Strabo, partially the work of C. O. Müller (_Dor._ vol. i. p. 110). The name Aepys seems to be based upon _Iliad_, ii. 592, and that of Pherae upon the original text of Strabo himself.--ED. [31] “Whether the list of the Spartan kings is correct or not, I do not know; their number may be historical, but the years of their reigns are very uncertain. Agis has quite the appearance of an historical personage.” [32] “The derivation of the name Εἵλωτες, from Ἕλος, is extremely uncertain. Helos was certainly destroyed, but I cannot see how Εἵλωτες could have been formed from Ἕλος. I cannot imagine that a neuter name in ος should form its ethnic name in ως, nor do I know any instance in which an initial ε is changed into ει.” [33] The words _of Sardinia_ have been inserted by conjecture. The MS. containing the clause _as was the case_, &c., has the words _by the Saracens_. But it is well known, that in the eleventh century, that is, about the time of the conquest of Sardinia, Pisa had 150,000 inhabitants, whereas at present it scarcely has the tenth part of that number.—ED. [34] This should probably be “the Homeric poems.” Cardamyle is mentioned, Iliad ix. 150, among the seven towns which Agamemnon offers to give to Achilles.—ED. [35] Herod. viii. 73, calls them Dryopians; so also Pausanias and Strabo.—ED. [36] The 20th of October, 1827. [37] “Their name, from its termination άς, reminds us of Italian ethnic names, such as _Antias_ and the like; but in the former the α is short.” [38] See _Hist. of Rome_, vol. i. p. 418, n. 975, vol. ii. p. 317; _Lect. on Rom. Hist._ vol. i. p. 203, n. 4; 3rd edit. [39] This list is given from Polybius, ii. 41; Niebuhr here forgot that _Aegae_ and _Rhypes_ had been mentioned even by Herodotus, i. 145, who omits Leontion and Cerynea. This requires the statement in the text to be modified, though it does not affect the explanation given by Niebuhr.—ED. [40] Strab. ix. p. 394, c. Instead of the verse Στῆσε δ’ ἄγων ἵν’ Ἀθηναίων ἵσταντο φάλαγγες, the Megarians read Αἴας δ’ ἐκ Σαλαμῖνος ἄγεν νέας, ἔκ τε Πολίχνης, Ἔκ τ’ Αἰγειρούσσης, Νισαίης τε Τριπόδων τε.—ED. [41] The statement of Thucydides is confirmed by the document of the official treaty about the fifty years’ peace of Nicias in Thucyd. v. 18: στήλας δὲ στῆσαι—ἐν Ἀθήναις ἐν πόλει.—ED.