Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.; History, Ancient
12 [ {alla kai tote uathesan ai Thebai psakadi}.]
13 [ The so-called {Leukon teikhon} on the south side of Memphis: cp.
ch. 91.]
14 [ {omoios kai} omitting {a}.]
15 [ {pentakosias mneas}.]
16 [ {aneklaion}: perhaps {anteklaion}, which has most MS. authority,
may be right, "answer their lamentations."]
17 [ See ch. 31.]
18 [ {egeomenon}: some Editors adopt the conjecture {agomenon}, "was
being led."]
19 [ {sphi}: so in the MSS.: some editions (following the Aldine) have
{oi}.]
20 [ {to te}: a correction for {tode}: some Editors read {tode, to}, "by
this, namely by the case of," etc.]
21 [ "gypsum."]
22 [ {epi}, lit. "after."]
23 [ {leukon tetragonon}: so the MSS. Some Editors, in order to bring
the statement of Herodotus into agreement with the fact, read {leukon ti
trigonon}, "a kind of white triangle": so Stein.]
24 [ {epi}: this is altered unnecessarily by most recent Editors to
{upo}, on the authority of Eusebius and Pliny, who say that the mark was
under the tongue.]
25 [ {ekeino}: some understand this to refer to Cambyses, "that there
was no one now who would come to the assistance of Cambyses, if he were
in trouble," an office which would properly have belonged to Smerdis,
cp. ch. 65: but the other reference seems more natural.]
26 [ Epilepsy or something similar.]
2601 [ Cp. note on i. 114.]
27 [ {pros ton patera [telesai] Kuron}: the word {telesai} seems to be
corrupt. Stein suggests {eikasai}, "as compared with." Some Editors omit
the word.]
28 [ {nomon panton basilea pheras einai}: but {nomos} in this fragment
of Pindar is rather the natural law by which the strong prevail over the
weak.]
29 [ {iakhon}: Stein reads by conjecture {skhon}, "having obtained
possession."]
30 [ {mede}: Abicht reads {meden} by conjecture.]
31 [ {alla}, under the influence of the preceding negative.]
32 [ {prosson} refers grammatically only to {autos}, and marks the
reference as being chiefly to himself throughout the sentence.]
33 [ {prorrizos}, "by the roots."]
34 [ {toi tesi pathesi}: the MSS. mostly have {toi autaisi} or
{toiautaisi}.]
35 [ See i. 51.]
36 [ {es Aigupton epetheke}, "delivered it (to a messenger to convey) to
Egypt."]
37 [ The island of Carpathos, the modern Scarpanto.]
38 [ {to thulako periergasthai}: which is susceptible of a variety of
meanings. In a similar story told of the Chians the Spartans are made to
say that it would have been enough to show the empty bag without saying
anything. (Sext. Empir. ii. 23.) Probably the meaning here is that if
they were going to say so much, they need not have shown the bag, for
the words were enough without the sight of the bag: or it may be only
that the words {o thulakos} were unnecessary in the sentence {o thulakos
alphiton deitai}.]
39 [ See i. 70.]
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