Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.; History, Ancient
99 [ {aneneikamenon}, nearly equivalent to {anastemaxanta} (cp. Hom. Il.
xix. 314), {mnesamenos d' adinos aneneikato phonesen te}. Some translate
it here, "he recovered himself," cp. ch. 116, {aneneikhtheis}.]
100 [ {ubristai}.]
101 [ {proesousi}: a conjectural emendation of {poiesousi}, adopted in
most of the modern editions.]
102 [ {touto oneidisai}: or {touton oneidisai}, "to reproach the god
with these things." The best MSS. have {touto}.]
103 [ {to kai... eipe ta eipe Loxias k.t.l.}: various emendations have
been proposed. If any one is to be adopted, the boldest would perhaps be
the best, {to de kai... eipe Loxias}.]
104 [ {oia te kai alle khore}, "such as other lands have."]
105 [ {stadioi ex kai duo plethra}.]
106 [ {plethra tria kai deka}.]
107 [ {Gugaie}.]
108 [ Or "Tyrrhenia."]
109 [ Or "Umbrians."]
110 [ {tes ano 'Asies}, i.e. the parts which are removed from the
Mediterranean.]
111 [ i.e. nature would not be likely to supply so many regularly
ascending circles. Stein alters the text so that the sentence runs thus,
"and whereas there are seven circles of all, within the last is the
royal palace," etc.]
112 [ i.e. "to laugh or to spit is unseemly for those in presence of
the king, and this last for all, whether in the presence of the king
or not." Cp. Xen. Cyrop. i. 2. 16, {aiskhron men gar eti kai nun esti
Persais kai to apoptuein kai to apomuttesthai}, (quoted by Stein, who
however gives a different interpretation).]
113 [ {tauta de peri eouton esemnune}: the translation given is that of
Mr. Woods.]
114 [ {allos mentoi eouton eu ekontes}: the translation is partly due to
Mr. Woods.]
115 [ i.e. East of the Halys: see note on ch. 95.]
116 [ See iv. 12.]
117 [ Cp. ch. 72.]
118 [ {ten katuperthe odon}, i.e. further away from the Euxine
eastwards.]
119 [ {o theos}.]
120 [ {khoris men gar phoron}: many Editors substitute {phoron} for
{phoron}, but {phoron} may stand if taken not with {khoris} but with {to
ekastoisi epeballon}.]
121 [ Cp. ch. 184, "the Assyrian history."]
122 [ {uperthemenos}, a conjectural emendation of {upothemenos}, cp. ch.
108 where the MSS. give {uperthemenos}, (the Medicean with {upo} written
above as a correction).]
123 [ Or "expose me to risk," "stake my safety."]
124 [ Or "thou wilt suffer the most evil kind of death": cp. ch. 167.]
12401 [ {tas aggelias pherein}, i.e. to have the office of
{aggeliephoros} (ch. 120) or {esaggeleus} (iii. 84), the chamberlain
through whom communications passed.]
125 [ {dialabein}. So translated by Mr. Woods.]
126 [ {es tas anagkas}, "to the necessity," mentioned above.]
127 [ Or "to celebrate good fortune."]
128 [ {akreon kheiron te kai podon}: cp. ii. 121 (e), {apotamonta en to
omo ten kheira}.]
129 [ {esti te o pais kai periesti}. So translated by Mr. Woods.]
130 [ {erkhe}: a few inferior MSS. have {eikhe}, which is adopted by
several Editors.]
131 [ {para smikra... kekhoreke}, "have come out equal to trifles."]
132 [ {kuon}: cp. ch. 110.]
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