NOTES TO BOOK II
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
39 (return) [ {zeias}.]
40 (return) [ i.e. the hieratic and the demotic characters.]
41 (return) [ {murias, os eipein logo}.]
42 (return) [ Referring apparently to iii. 28, where the marks of Apis are given. Perhaps no animal could be sacrificed which had any of these marks.]
43 (return) [ {kephale keine}, "that head," cp. {koilien keinen} in the next chapter.]
44 (return) [ {katharon}.]
45 (return) [ {baris}, cp. ch. 96.]
46 (return) [ Or, "descended from Aigyptos."]
4601 (return) [ Or, "assuming that in those days as now, they were wont to make voyages, and that some of the Hellenes were seafaring folk."]
47 (return) [ {stelai}, "upright blocks."]
48 (return) [ {lampontos tas nuktas megathos}: some Editors alter {megathos} to {megalos} or {mega phos}.]
49 (return) [ {enagizousi}.]
50 (return) [ {uon}: some Editors read {oion} "sheep," on the authority of one MS.]
51 (return) [ {ta ounamata}, which means here rather the forms of personification than the actual names.]
52 (return) [ {ai pramanteis}.]
53 (return) [ {phegon}.]
54 (return) [ {upo phego pephukuie}, i.e. the oak-tree of the legend was a real growing tree, though the dove was symbolical.]
55 (return) [ {panegurias}.]
56 (return) [ {prosagogas}, with the idea of bringing offerings or introducing persons.]
57 (return) [ {epoiethesan}, "were first celebrated."]
58 (return) [ So B.R.]
59 (return) [ {sumphoiteousi}.]
5901 (return) [ i.e. 700,000.]
60 (return) [ See ch. 40.]
61 (return) [ {tesi thusiesi, en tini nukti}: some MSS. give {en te nukti}: hence several Editors read {tes thusies en te nukti}, "on the night of the sacrifice."]
62 (return) [ Or, "for what end this night is held solemn by lighting of lamps" (B.R.), making {phos kai timen} one idea.]
63 (return) [ {alexomenous}: this, which is adopted by most Editors, is the reading of some less good MSS.; the rest have {alexomenoi}, "strike them and defend themselves."]
6301 (return) [ {eousa e Aiguptos k.t.l.}: the MSS. have {eousa de Aiguptos}: Stein reads {eousa gar Aiguptos}.]
64 (return) [ {theia pregmata katalambanei tous aielourous}, which may mean only, "a marvellous thing happens to the cats."]
65 (return) [ {es 'Ermeo polin}.]
66 (return) [ {dikhelon, oplai boos}, "he is cloven-footed, and his foot is that of an ox." The words {oplai boos} are marked as spurious by Stein.]
67 (return) [ i.e. above the marshes, cp. ch. 92.]
68 (return) [ {pante}, which by some is translated "taken all together," "at most." Perhaps there is some corruption of text, and the writer meant to say that it measured two cubits by one cubit.]
6801 (return) [ The reading of the Medicean MS. is {en esti}, not {enesti} as hitherto reported.]
69 (return) [ Or, "calling the song Linos."]
70 (return) [ {ton Linon okothen elabon}: the MSS. have {to ounoma} after {elabon}, but this is omitted by almost all Editors except Stein, who justifies it by a reference to ch. 50, and understands it to mean "the person of Linos." No doubt the song and the person are here spoken off indiscriminately, but this explanation would require the reading {tou Linou}, as indeed Stein partly admits by suggesting the alteration.]
71 (return) [ The words "and Bacchic (which are really Egyptian)," are omitted by several of the best MSS.]
72 (return) [ {epezosmenai}.]
73 (return) [ In connexion with death apparently, cp. ch. 132, 170. Osiris is meant.]
74 (return) [ {sindonos bussines}.]