NOTES TO BOOK VIII
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
79 (return) [ {geopeinas}, "poor in land."]
80 (return) [ It seems necessary to insert {an} with {einai}. For the sentiment cp. vii. 172.]
81 (return) [ {khreomenos toisi kai pros basilea ekhresato}. This is the reading of the best MSS.: the rest have {khreomenos logoisi toisi kai pros Andrious ekhresato}, "using the same language as he had before used to the Andrians."]
82 (return) [ {kai ten allen ippon}: some MSS. omit {allen}.]
83 (return) [ {ola}, i.e. not the whole number of them, but great masses without individual selection.]
84 (return) [ {ouden meros os eipein}.]
85 (return) [ {anemon Strumonien}, "the wind called Strymonias."]
86 (return) [ {ta akrothinia}, i.e. the tithe.]
87 (return) [ i.e. the corner of the entrance-hall, {epi tou proneiou tes gonies}, i. 51.]
88 (return) [ {dienemon}: some understand this to mean "distributed the voting tablets," and some MSS. read {dienemonto}, "distributed among themselves," which is adopted by many Editors.]
89 (return) [ {sophotatos}.]
90 (return) [ See i. 67.]
91 (return) [ A small island near Attica, taken here as the type of insignificance. To suppose that Timodemos was connected with it is quite unnecessary. The story in Plutarch about the Seriphian is different.]
92 (return) [ i.e. 60,000.]
93 (return) [ {katesphaxe}, "cut their throats."]
94 (return) [ {para tas gluphidas}: some Editors read {peri tas gluphidas} on the authority of Æneas Tacticus. The {gluphides} are probably notches which give a hold for the fingers as they draw back the string.]
95 (return) [ {kataplexai}, "strike down" by the charge.]
96 (return) [ The way was shut against them ordinarily by the town of Potidaia, which occupied the isthmus.]
97 (return) [ i.e. most of those who before served as {epibatai} (vii. 96) continued to serve still. The sentence is usually translated, "of those who served as fighting-men in them the greater number were Persians or Medes," and this may be right.]
98 (return) [ The MSS. have "Charilos" or "Charillos."]
99 (return) [ Some Editors read "Eurypon," which is the form found elsewhere.]
100 (return) [ Cp. vii. 204.]
101 (return) [ {duon}. It seems certain that the number required here is seven and not two, and the emendation {epta} for {duon} ({z} for {b}) is approved by several Editors.]
102 (return) [ {khresomenon}: the best MSS. read {khresamenon}, which is retained by Stein, with the meaning "charging him to consult the Oracles everywhere... and then return."]
103 (return) [ i.e. Mardonios and the Persians.]
104 (return) [ i.e. Theban citizens.]
105 (return) [ {promantin}: he is afterwards called {prophetes}.]
106 (return) [ Cp. v. 21.]
107 (return) [ Some Editors would read "Alabastra." Alabanda was a Carian town.]
108 (return) [ Counting Alexander himself as one.]
109 (return) [ {esan gar}: this is the reading of the best MSS.: others have {esan de}. Stein (reading {esan gar}) places this clause after the next, "The wife of the king herself baked their bread, for in ancient times, etc." This transposition is unnecessary; for it would be easy to understand it as a comment on the statement that three members of the royal house of Argos became farm-servants.]
110 (return) [ {ai turannides ton anthropon}.]
111 (return) [ {exaireton metaikhmion te ten gun ektemenon}: there are variations of reading and punctuation in the MSS.]
112 (return) [ {sunepipte oste omou spheon ginesthai ten katastasin}, i.e. their introduction before the assembly, cp. iii. 46.]
113 (return) [ {epeximen amunomenoi}, which possibly might be translated, "we will continue to defend ourselves."]
114 (return) [ {karta anthropeion}.]