86 [ {kithonas}.] 87 [ {drepana}, "reaping-hooks," cp. v. 112.] 88 [ See i. 171.] 89 [ {Pelasgoi Aigialees}.] 90 [ {kerkouroi}.] 91 [ {makra}: some MSS. and editions have {smikra}, "small."] 92 [ Or "Mapen."] 93 [ Or "Seldomos."] 94 [ {metopedon}.] 95 [ {me oentes arthmioi}. This is generally taken to mean, "unless they were of one mind together"; but that would very much weaken the force of the remark, and {arthmios} elsewhere is the opposite of {polemios}, cp. vi. 83 and ix. 9, 37: Xerxes professes enmity only against those who had refused to give the tokens of submission.] 96 [ {men mounoisi}: these words are omitted in some good MSS., and {mounoisi} has perhaps been introduced from the preceding sentence. The thing referred to in {touto} is the power of fighting in single combat with many at once, which Demaratos is supposed to have claimed for the whole community of the Spartans.] 97 [ {stergein malista}.] 98 [ {oudamoi ko}.] 99 [ Or, "Strauos."] 100 [ Or, "Compsatos."] 101 [ {tas epeirotidas polis}: it is not clear why these are thus distinguished. Stein suggests {Thasion tas epeirotidas polis}, cp. ch. [Footnote 118; and if that be the true reading {ion} is probably a remnant of {Thasion} after {khoras}.] 102 [ Or, "Pistiros."] 103 [ {oi propheteountes}, i.e. those who interpret the utterances of the Oracle, cp. viii. 36.] 104 [ {promantis}.] 105 [ {kai ouden poikiloteron}, an expression of which the meaning is not quite clear; perhaps "and the oracles are not at all more obscure," cp. Eur. Phoen. 470 and Hel. 711 (quoted by Bähr).] 106 [ "Ennea Hodoi."] 107 [ Cp. iii. 84.] 108 [ The "royal cubit" is about 20 inches; the {daktulos}, "finger's breadth," is rather less than ¾ inch.] 109 [ Or, "Cape Canastraion."] 110 [ Or "Echeidoros": so it is usually called, but not by any MS. here, and by a few only in ch. 127.] 111 [ {pro mesogaian tamnon tes odou}: cp. iv. 12 and ix. 89.] 112 [ Cp. ch. 6 and 174: but it does not appear that the Aleuadai, of whom Xerxes is here speaking, ever thought of resistance, and perhaps {gnosimakheontes} means, "when they submitted without resistance."] 113 [ Some MSS. have {Ainienes} for {Enienes}.] 114 [ {dekateusai}: there is sufficient authority for this rendering of {dekateuein}, and it seems better here than to understand the word to refer only to a "tithing" of goods.] 115 [ {es to barathron}, the place of execution at Athens.] 116 [ "undesirable thing."] 117 [ {ouk ex isou}: i.e. it is one-sided, because the speaker has had experience of only one of the alternatives.] 118 [ Cp. ch. 143 (end), and viii. 62.] 119 [ {teikheon kithones}, a poetical expression, quoted perhaps from some oracle; and if so, {kithon} may here have the Epic sense of a "coat of mail," equivalent to {thorex} in i. 181: see ch. 61, note 56.] 120 [ {to megaron}.] 121 [ The form of address changes abruptly to the singular number, referring to the Athenian people.]