NOTES TO BOOK III
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
77 (return) [ i.e. the Cappadokians, see i. 6.]
7701 (return) [ See ii. 149.]
78 (return) [ {muriadas}: the MSS. have {muriasi}. With {muriadas} we must supply {medimnon}. The {medimnos} is really about a bushel and a half.]
79 (return) [ {Pausikai}: some MSS. have {Pausoi}.]
80 (return) [ {tous anaspastous kaleomenous}.]
81 (return) [ {Kaspioi}: some read by conjecture {Kaspeiroi}, others {Kasioi}.]
82 (return) [ {ogdokonta kai oktakosia kai einakiskhilia}: the MSS. have {tesserakonta kai pentakosia kai einakiskhilia} (9540), which is irreconcilable with the total sum given below, and also with the sum obtained by adding up the separate items given in Babylonian talents, whether we reduce them by the proportion 70:60 given by the MSS. in ch. 89, or by the true proportion 78:60. On the other hand the total sum given below is precisely the sum of the separate items (after subtracting the 140 talents used for the defence of Kilikia), reduced in the proportion 78:60; and this proves the necessity of the emendation here ({thop} for {thphm}) as well as supplying a strong confirmation of that adopted in ch. 89.]
83 (return) [ The reckoning throughout is in round numbers, nothing less than the tens being mentioned.]
84 (return) [ {oi peri te Nusen}: perhaps this should be corrected to {oi te peri Nusen}, because the {sunamphoteroi} which follows seem to refer to two separate peoples.]
85 (return) [ The passage "these Ethiopians—dwellings" is marked by Stein as doubtful on internal grounds. The Callantian Indians mentioned seem to be the same as the Callantians mentioned in ch. 38.]
86 (return) [ {khoinikas}.]
87 (return) [ {dia penteteridos}.]
88 (return) [ i.e. the Indus.]
89 (return) [ Either {auton tekomenon} is to be taken absolutely, equivalent to {autou tekomenou}, and {ta krea} is the subject of {diaphtheiresthai}; or {auton} is the subject and {ta krea} is accusative of definition, "wasting away in his flesh." Some MSS. have {diaphtheirein}, "that he is spoiling his flesh for them."]
90 (return) [ {gar}: some would read {de}, but the meaning seems to be, "this is done universally, for in the case of weakness arising from old age, the same takes place."]
91 (return) [ {pros arktou te kai boreo anemou}.]
92 (return) [ This clause indicates the manner in which the size is so exactly known.]
93 (return) [ {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 (return) [ i.e. two in each hind-leg.]
95 (return) [ {kai paraluesthai}: {kai} is omitted in some MSS. and by some Editors.]
96 (return) [ {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 (return) [ 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 (return) [ See ii. 75.]
98 (return) [ {metri}: the MSS. have {metre}, "womb," but for this Herod. seems to use the plural.]
99 (return) [ {metera}: most MSS. have {metran}.]
100 (return) [ 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 (return) [ {elkea}. There is a play upon the words {epelkein} and {elkea} which can hardly be reproduced in translation.]
102 (return) [ {Kassiteridas}.]
103 (return) [ {o kassiteros}.]
104 (return) [ cp. iv. 13.]
105 (return) [ {akinakea}.]
106 (return) [ 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 (return) [ The satrapy of Daskyleion is the third in the list, see ch. 90.]
108 (return) [ {su gar en andron logo}.]
109 (return) [ Or, "banqueting hall," cp. iv. 95.]
110 (return) [ {apestrammenon}: most of the MSS. have {epestrammenon}, "turned towards (the wall)."]
11001 (return) [ "whenever he (i.e. Zeus) rained."]
111 (return) [ This clause, "as Amasis the king of Egypt had foretold to him," is omitted in some MSS. and by some Editors.]
112 (return) [ {oideonton eti ton pregmaton}: cp. ch. 76.]
113 (return) [ i.e. satrapies: see ch. 89, 90.]