NOTES TO BOOK VII
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
38 (return) [ i.e. in proportion to the quantity: there was of course a greater weight altogether of the papyrus rope.]
39 (return) [ {autis epezeugnuon}.]
40 (return) [ {ekleipsin}: cp. {eklipon} above.]
41 (return) [ Or, according to some MSS., "Nisaian."]
42 (return) [ i.e. not downwards.]
43 (return) [ {tina autou sukhnon omilon}.]
44 (return) [ {to Priamou Pergamon}.]
45 (return) [ {en Abudo mese}: some inferior authorities (followed by most Editors) omit {mese}: but the district seems to be spoken of, as just above.]
46 (return) [ {proexedre lothou leukou}: some kind of portico or loggia seems to be meant.]
47 (return) [ {daimonie andoon}.]
48 (return) [ {ena auton}.]
49 (return) [ {to proso aiei kleptomenos}: "stealing thy advance continually," i.e. "advancing insensibly further." Some take {kleptomenos} as passive, "insensibly lured on further."]
50 (return) [ {neoteron ti poiesein}.]
51 (return) [ Or, according to some MSS., "the Persian land."]
52 (return) [ Lit. "the name of which happens to be Agora."]
53 (return) [ i.e. 1,700,000.]
54 (return) [ {sunnaxantes}: a conjectural emendation very generally adopted of {sunaxantes} or {sunapsantes}.]
55 (return) [ {apageas}, i.e. not stiffly standing up; the opposite to {pepeguias} (ch. 64).]
56 (return) [ {lepidos siderees opsin ikhthueideos}: many Editors suppose that some words have dropped out. The {kithon} spoken of may have been a coat of armour, but elsewhere the body armour {thorex} is clearly distinguished from the {kithon}, see ix. 22.]
57 (return) [ {gerra}: cp. ix. 61 and 102.]
58 (return) [ Cp. i. 7.]
59 (return) [ {mitrephoroi esan}: the {mitre} was perhaps a kind of turban.]
60 (return) [ {tesi Aiguptiesi}, apparently {makhairesi} is meant to be supplied: cp. ch. 91.]
61 (return) [ {eklethesan}, "were called" from the first.]
62 (return) [ These words are by some Editors thought to be an interpolation. The Chaldeans in fact had become a caste of priests, cp. i. 181.]
63 (return) [ {kurbasias}: supposed to be the same as the tiara (cp. v. 49), but in this case stiff and upright.]
64 (return) [ i.e. Areians, cp. iii. 93.]
65 (return) [ {sisurnas}: cp. iv. 109.]
66 (return) [ {akinakas}.]
67 (return) [ {sisurnophoroi}.]
68 (return) [ {zeiras}.]
69 (return) [ {toxa palintona}.]
70 (return) [ {spathes}, which perhaps means the stem of the leaf.]
71 (return) [ {gupso}, "white chalk."]
72 (return) [ {milto}, "red ochre."]
73 (return) [ Some words have apparently been lost containing the name of the nation to which the following description applies. It is suggested that this might be either the Chalybians or the Pisidians.]
74 (return) [ {lukioergeas}, an emendation from Athenæus of {lukoergeas} (or {lukergeas}), which might perhaps mean "for wolf-hunting."]
75 (return) [ {anastpastous}: cp. iii. 93.]
76 (return) [ Some Editors place this clause before the words: "and Smerdomenes the son of Otanes," for we do not hear of Otanes or Smerdomenes elsewhere as brother and nephew of Dareios. On the other hand Mardonios was son of the sister of Dareios.]
77 (return) [ {tukhe}, "hits."]