[Footnote 155: Σκύθαι τοξόται.] As there is no mention of Scythians in the whole Anabasis, Krüger, in his larger edition, suggested that the word Σκύθαι might have been written in the margin by some sciolist, who was thinking of the Athenian τοξόται; but in his smaller edition he has shown that he has learned something better from Arrian, Tact. ii. 13: "Those of the cavalry who use bows are called ἱπποτοξόται, and by some Σκύθαι." _Kühner_.] [Footnote 156: In order that they might fall with the greater weight. _Bornemann_. Or perhaps, as Bishop Thirlwall thinks, that they might reach a greater distance.] [Footnote 157: Πονήρως.] From πόνηρος, _difficult_, not from πονηρός, _bad_. See Thucyd. viii. 24, ed. Popp. part iii. vol. iv. p. 658, _seqq._ _Kühner_.] [Footnote 158: Καὶ εὐεπίθετον ἧν ἐνταῦθα τοῖς πολεμίοις. I have rendered this phrase agreeably to the notion of Krüger, who thinks εὐεπίθετον used absolutely, or as a substantive. Some, however, understand τὸ πλαίσιον, or τὸ στράτευμα, which is perhaps better.] [Footnote 159: Ἐνωμοτάρχας.] The ἐνωμοτία being the fourth part of a λόχος, or twenty-five men. See Xen. De Rep. Lac. ii. 4; Arnold's Thucyd. v. 68.] [Footnote 160: As there were six companies of a hundred men each, they moved into the vacant space, if it was but narrow, by centuries, that is, six men in front, and a hundred deep; if it was somewhat broader, by fifties, that is, twelve men in front, and fifty deep; if very broad, by twenty-fives, that is, twenty-four men in front, and twenty-five deep. _Kühner_.] [Footnote 161: Ἐν τῷ μέρει.] Each in his place; one after another in the order which had been previously appointed.] [Footnote 162: Ην ἡ κώμη.] Schneider, Bornemann, and most editors before Dindorf, read κώμη, _a village_, without the article. Dindorf has added the article from two manuscripts, and Kühner has followed him, supposing that _the particular village_ of which the Greeks had now caught sight is meant. Bornemann, if the article be added, thinks that _the village in which the palace stood_ is intended. The passage seems to me decidedly better without the article; for, if it be inserted, the reader is puzzled to know why Xenophon changes the number, when he had just before said that the palace stood in the midst of villages.] [Footnote 163: According to the discipline of the Persians; see Herod, vii. 21, 56, 223.] [Footnote 164: This is the first mention of surgeons in the Greek army, as Mr. Stanford observes, since the time of Homer. But whether the persons here mentioned were professed surgeons, or merely some of the soldiers, who, in long service, had gained experience in the treatment of wounds, is uncertain. The latter supposition is more in consonance with the word _appointed_.]