NOTES TO BOOK IV.
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
77 (return) [ {epitropou}.]
78 (return) [ {peplastai}: some authorities give {pepaistai}, "has been invented as a jest".]
79 (return) [ {es kheiras agesthai}.]
7901 (return) [ {o theos}.]
80 (return) [ {diepresteuse}: this or {epresteuse} is the reading of most of the MSS. The meaning is uncertain, since the word does not occur elsewhere. Stein suggests that it may mean "scoffed (at the Scythians)". Various conjectures have been tried, e.g. {diedresteuse}, {diedrepeteuse}, etc.]
81 (return) [ {os Skuthas einai}: cp. ii. 8. Some (e.g. Dindorf and Bähr) translate "considering that they are Scythians," i.e. for a nation so famous and so widely extended.]
82 (return) [ i.e. about 5300 gallons.]
83 (return) [ {epi to iro}: the MSS. mostly have {epi iro}, and Stein adopts the conjecture {epi rio}, "on a projecting point". The temple would be that of {Zeus ourios} mentioned in ch. 87. (In the Medicean MS. the omitted {i} is inserted above the line beforethe {r}, not directly over it, as represented by Stein, and the accent is not omitted.)]
84 (return) [ {stadioi}, and so throughout.]
85 (return) [ i.e. 1,110,000.]
86 (return) [ i.e. 330,000.]
8601 (return) [ {stelas}, i.e. "square blocks"; so also in ch. 91.]
87 (return) [ i.e. 700,000.]
8701 (return) [ {os emoi dokeei sumballomeno}, "putting the evidence together".]
88 (return) [ {pasi deka}: probably a loose expression like {ta panta muria}, iii. 74.]
89 (return) [ {psoren}, "mange".]
90 (return) [ Or (less probably) "Skyrmiadai".]
91 (return) [ {Salmoxin}: some inferior MSS. have {Zalmoxin}, or {Zamolxin}, and the spelling in other writers varies between these forms.]
92 (return) [ {daimona}, sometimes used for deified men as distinguished from gods, cp. ch. 103.]
93 (return) [ {dia penteteridos}.]
94 (return) [ {bathutera}.]
95 (return) [ {ou to asthenestato sophiste}. No depreciation seems to be intended here.]
96 (return) [ {andreona}.]
97 (return) [ i.e. the Mediterranean: or the passage may mean simply, "Thrace runs out further into the sea than Scythia".]
98 (return) [ {gounon}.]
99 (return) [ More literally, "I say this, so far as it is allowed to compare, etc. Such is the form of the Tauric land".]
100 (return) [ {ede}. The Agathyrsians however have not been mentioned before in this connection.]
101 (return) [ {stadia}.]
102 (return) [ {tes Skuthikes ta epikarsia}, i.e. the lines running from West to East.]
103 (return) [ {epanakhthentes}: so the Medicean MS. and another: the rest have {epanakhthentas}. Some Editors read by conjecture {apeneikhthentas}, "cast away on their coast".]
104 (return) [ {neoisi}.]
105 (return) [ {trieteridas}.]
106 (return) [ Or, "were driven out".]
107 (return) [ {phtheirotrageousi}.]
108 (return) [ Or, "Aiorpata," and "aior" below.]
109 (return) [ i.e. the Royal Scythians: see ch. 20.]
110 (return) [ {epi touto}, the reading of the Aldine edition. The MSS. have {epi touto}. Stein suggests {dia touto}.]
111 (return) [ {ou peisometha}: some MSS. read {ouk oisometha}. Editors have emended by conjecture in various ways, e.g. {ou periopsometha}, "we shall not allow it"; {oi epoisometha} or {oi epeisometha}, "we shall go out to attack him"; {aposometha}, "we shall repel him".]
112 (return) [ {paras}, or {pasai}, belonging to {gunaikes}.]
113 (return) [ {khersou}, "dry".]