93 [ {autoi}, i.e. in themselves as well as in their habits. Some MSS. read {to} for {autoi}, which is adopted by several Editors; others adopt the conjecture {autois}.] 94 [ i.e. two in each hind-leg.] 95 [ {kai paraluesthai}: {kai} is omitted in some MSS. and by some Editors.] 96 [ {ouk omou}: some Editors omit {ouk}: the meaning seems to be that in case of necessity they are thrown off one after another to delay the pursuing animals.] 97 [ The meaning of the passage is doubtful: possibly it should be translated (omitting {kai}) "the male camels, being inferior in speed to the females, flag in their course and are dragged along, first one and then the other."] 9701 [ See ii. 75.] 98 [ {metri}: the MSS. have {metre}, "womb," but for this Herod. seems to use the plural.] 99 [ {metera}: most MSS. have {metran}.] 100 [ Most of the MSS. have {auton} before {ta melea}, which by some Editors is omitted, and by others altered to {autika}. If {auton} is to stand it must be taken with {katapetomenas}, "flying down upon them," and so it is punctuated in the Medicean MS.] 101 [ {elkea}. There is a play upon the words {epelkein} and {elkea} which can hardly be reproduced in translation.] 102 [ {Kassiteridas}.] 103 [ {o kassiteros}.] 104 [ cp. iv. 13.] 105 [ {akinakea}.] 106 [ This is the second of the satrapies mentioned in the list, see ch. 90, named from its chief town. Oroites also possessed himself of the first satrapy, of which the chief town was Magnesia (ch. 122), and then of the third (see ch. 127).] 107 [ The satrapy of Daskyleion is the third in the list, see ch. 90.] 108 [ {su gar en andron logo}.] 109 [ Or, "banqueting hall," cp. iv. 95.] 110 [ {apestrammenon}: most of the MSS. have {epestrammenon}, "turned towards (the wall)."] 11001 [ "whenever he (i.e. Zeus) rained."] 111 [ This clause, "as Amasis the king of Egypt had foretold to him," is omitted in some MSS. and by some Editors.] 112 [ {oideonton eti ton pregmaton}: cp. ch. 76.] 113 [ i.e. satrapies: see ch. 89, 90.] 114 [ {apikomenon kai anakomisthenton}: the first perhaps referring to the slaves and the other to the rest of the property.] 115 [ i.e. the art of evasion.] 116 [ {es tou khrosou ten theken}: {es} is not in the MSS., which have generally {tou khrusou sun theke}: one only has {tou khrusou ten theken}.] 117 [ {stateras}: i.e. the {stater Dareikos} "Daric," worth about £1; cp. note on vii. 28.] 118 [ {ekaton mneon}, "a hundred minae," of which sixty go to the talent.] 119 [ This passage, from "for this event happened" to the end of the chapter, is suspected as an interpolation by some Editors, on internal grounds.] 120 [ Tarentum. Italy means for Herodotus the southern part of the peninsula only.]