Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.; History, Ancient
2001 [ {me de neoteron ti poieuses tes Miletou}, "if Miletos made no
change (i.e. rebellion)."]
21 [ {katairetheie}, "taken down" from their place (cp. {anetheke}
below).]
22 [ {en to peoto ton logon}. The reference is to i. 92.]
23 [ {isonomien}: cp. iii. 80.]
24 [ {akromantes}: cp. {akrakholos}. It may mean "somewhat mad," so
{akrozumos}, "slightly leavened," and other words.]
25 [ {Kinupa}: for this Stein reads by conjecture {Aibuen} and
afterwards {para Kinupa potamon} for {para potamon}: but Kinyps was
the name of the district about the river (iv. 198), and the name of the
river is easily supplied from this.]
26 [ {Makeon te kai Libuon}. The Macai were of course Libyans, therefore
perhaps we should read (with Niebuhr) {Makeon te Libuon}: or {Makeon te
kai allon Libuon}.]
27 [ Stein thinks that Heracleia Minoa on the S. coast of Sicily cannot
be meant, because too distant to be considered part of the "land of
Eryx." Evidently however this expression is very vague, and there seems
no need to correct the text as he proposes.]
28 [ {para ten Italion}: the name applied anciently only to the
South-West of the peninsula.]
29 [ {Krathin}, the MSS. give {krastin} here, and {krastie} below for
{Krathie}. Sybaris was situated between the rivers Crathis and Sybaris.]
30 [ i.e. "of the Market-place."]
31 [ {periodos}.]
32 [ {kurbasias}: see vii. 64.]
33 [ {poluargurotatoi}: this seems to include gold also, for which Lydia
was famous.]
34 [ {poluprobatotatoi}.]
35 [ {tende}, pointing to it in the map.]
36 [ If {anaballesthai} is the true reading here, it cannot mean,
"put off to another time," as Stein translates it; for the form of the
sentence proves that it is to be taken as a question, co-ordinate with
that which follows: {peri men khores ara ou polles khreon esti umeas
makhas anaballesthai, parekhon de tes Asies arkhein allo ti airesesthe};
the first clause being in sense subordinate to the second.]
37 [ {es triten emeren}.]
38 [ {diaphthereei se}. It is impossible to reproduce the double meaning
of {diaphtheirein}, "to destroy," and "to corrupt with bribes." The
child was apparently alarmed by the vehement gestures of Aristagoras
and supposed that he was going to kill her father. Cleomenes accepts the
omen.]
39 [ {stathmoi}: "stations," the distance between them averaging here
about 120 stades.]
40 [ {parasaggai}: the "parasang," as estimated at 30 stades, would be
nearly 3½ English miles.]
4001 [ i.e. a narrow pass; so also below in speaking of the passes into
Kilikia.]
41 [ In the MSS. this clause follows the account of the four rivers, and
the distance through Matiene is given as "four stages" with no number of
leagues added. By transposing the clause we avoid placing the rivers
in Armenia instead of Matiene; and by making the number of stages
thirty-four, with a corresponding number of leagues, we make the total
right at the end and give the proper extension to Matiene.]
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