182. Amasis also dedicated offerings in Hellas, first at Kyrene an image of Athene covered over with gold and a figure of himself made like by painting; then in the temple of Athene at Lindson two images of stone and a corslet of linen worthy to be seen; and also at Samos two wooden figures of himself dedicated to Hera, which were standing even to my own time in the great temple, behind the doors. Now at Samos he dedicated offerings because of the guest-friendship between himself and Polycrates the son of Aiakes; at Lindos for no guest-friendship but because the temple of Athene at Lindos is said to have been founded by the daughters of Danaos, who had touched land there at the time when they were fleeing from the sons of Aigyptos. These offerings were dedicated by Amasis; and he was the first of men who conquered Cyprus and subdued it so that it paid him tribute. ————— NOTES TO BOOK II 1 [ Some write "Psammitichos" with less authority.] 2 [ {tou en Memphi}: many Editors read {en Memphi}, "I heard at Memphis from the priests of Hephaistos," but with less authority.] 3 [ {'Eliou polin} or {'Elioupolin}, cp. {'Elioupolitai} below.] 4 [ {exo e ta ounamata auton mounon}. Some understand "them" to mean "the gods"; rather perhaps the meaning is that accounts of such things will not be related in full, but only touched upon.] 5 [ {ison peri auton epistasthai}.] 6 [ {anthropon}, emphatic, for the rulers before him were gods (ch. 144).] 7 [ {Mina}: others read {Mena}, but the authority of the MSS. is strong for {Mina} both here and in ch. 99.] 8 [ {tou Thebaikou nomou}, cp. ch. 164.] 9 [ {tautes on apo}: some MSS. omit {apo}, "this then is the land for which the sixty schoines are reckoned."] 10 [ For the measures of length cp. ch. 149. The furlong ({stadion}) is equal to 100 fathoms ({orguiai}), i.e. 606 feet 9 inches.] 11 [ Or "without rain": the word {anudros} is altered by some Editors to {enudros} or {euudros}, "well watered."] 12 [ I have followed Stein in taking {es ta eiretai} with {legon}, meaning "at the Erythraian Sea," {taute men} being a repetition of {te men} above. The bend back would make the range double, and hence partly its great breadth. Others translate, "Here (at the quarries) the range stops, and bends round to the parts mentioned (i.e. the Erythraian Sea)."] 13 [ {os einai Aiguptou}: cp. iv. 81. Others translate, "considering that it belongs to Egypt" (a country so vast), i.e. "as measures go in Egypt." In any case {Aiguptos eousa} just below seems to repeat the same meaning.] 14 [ Some Editors alter this to "fourteen."] 15 [ {pentastomou}: some less good MSS. have {eptastomou}, "which has seven mouths."] 16 [ See note on i. 203.] 17 [ {ton erkhomai lexon}: these words are by many Editors marked as spurious, and they certainly seem to be out of place here.] 18 [ {kou ge de}: "where then would not a gulf be filled up?"]