211 [ {tous katesteotas}. There is a reference to the body of 300 so called {ippeis} (cp. i. 67), who were appointed to accompany the king in war; but we must suppose that on special occasions the king made up this appointed number by selection, and that in this case those were preferred who had sons to keep up the family. Others (including Grote) understand {tous katesteotas} to mean "men of mature age."] 212 [ {ton Pulagoron}.] 213 [ {es ten Pulaien}.] 214 [ An indication that the historian intended to carry his work further than the year 479.] 215 [ See ch. 83.] 216 [ {ek te tosou de katededekto eousa ouden khreste Melieusi}, i.e. {e esbole}.] 217 [ {Melampugon}.] 218 [ Lit. "had set out to go at first."] 219 [ Lit. "and afterwards deserters were they who reported."] 220 [ {diakrithentes}.] 221 [ {taute kai mallon te gnome pleistos eimi}.] 222 [ i.e. the Persian.] 223 [ {prin tond eteron dia panta dasetai}: i.e. either the city or the king.] 224 [ {mounon Spartieteon}: some Editors (following Plutarch) read {mounon Spartieteon}, "lay up for the Spartans glory above all other nations."] 225 [ {to men gar eruma tou teikheos ephulasseto, oi de k.t.l.}] 226 [ i.e. the Lacedemonians.] 227 [ {izonto epi ton kolonon}.] 228 [ Some Editors insert {tous} after {e}, "before those who were sent away by Leonidas had departed."] 229 [ {remasi}.] 230 [ {leipopsukheonta}, a word which refers properly to bodily weakness. It has been proposed to read {philopsukheonta}, "loving his life," cp. vi. 29.] 231 [ {algesanta}: some good MSS. have {alogesanta}, which is adopted by Stein, "had in his ill-reckoning returned alone."] 232 [ {tes autes ekhomenou prophasios}.] 233 [ {atimien}.] 234 [ {o tresas}.] 235 [ Thuc. ii. 2 ff.] 236 [ {tas diexodous ton bouleumaton}, cp. iii. 156.] 237 [ {ton vees k.t.l.}: some Editors insert {ek} before {ton}, "by which four hundred ships have suffered shipwreck."] 238 [ {ta seoutou de tithemenos eu gnomen ekho}: for {ekho} some inferior MSS. have {ekhe}, which is adopted by several Editors, "Rather set thy affairs in good order and determine not to consider," etc.] 239 [ {to pareon troma}, i.e. their defeat.] 240 [ {kai esti dusmenes te sige}. Some commentators understand {te sige} to mean "secretly," like {sige}, viii. 74.] 241 [ See ch. 220.] 242 [ Many Editors pronounce the last chapter to be an interpolation, but perhaps with hardly sufficient reason.] BOOK VIII. THE EIGHTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED URANIA