NOTES TO BOOK III
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
114 (return) [ {apikomenon kai anakomisthenton}: the first perhaps referring to the slaves and the other to the rest of the property.]
115 (return) [ i.e. the art of evasion.]
116 (return) [ {es tou khrosou ten theken}: {es} is not in the MSS., which have generally {tou khrusou sun theke}: one only has {tou khrusou ten theken}.]
117 (return) [ {stateras}: i.e. the {stater Dareikos} "Daric," worth about £1; cp. note on vii. 28.]
118 (return) [ {ekaton mneon}, "a hundred minae," of which sixty go to the talent.]
119 (return) [ This passage, from "for this event happened" to the end of the chapter, is suspected as an interpolation by some Editors, on internal grounds.]
120 (return) [ Tarentum. Italy means for Herodotus the southern part of the peninsula only.]
121 (return) [ {restones}: so one inferior MS., probably by conjectural emendation: the rest have {krestones}. The Ionic form however of {rastone} would be {reistone}. Some would read {khrestones}, a word which is not found, but might mean the same as {kresmosunes} (ix. 33), "in consequence of the request of Demokedes."]
122 (return) [ {kat' emporien strateuomenoi}: some MSS. read {kat' emporien, oi de strateuomenoi}, "some for trade, others serving in the army."]
123 (return) [ {prothura}.]
124 (return) [ {e tis e oudeis}.]
125 (return) [ {isonomien}: see ch. 80, note.]
126 (return) [ {all' oud' axios eis su ge}. Maiandrios can claim no credit or reward for giving up that of which by his own unworthiness he would in any case have been deprived.]
127 (return) [ {ou de ti}: some read {oud' eti} or {ou de eti}, "no longer kept the purpose."]
128 (return) [ {en gorgure}: the word also means a "sewer" or "conduit."]
129 (return) [ {prosempikraneesthai emellon toisi Samioisi}.]
130 (return) [ {tous diphrophoreumenous}: a doubtful word: it seems to be a sort of title belonging to Persians of a certain rank, perhaps those who were accompanied by men to carry seats for them, the same as the {thronoi} mentioned in ch. 144; or, "those who were borne in litters."]
131 (return) [ {sageneusantes}: see vi. 31. The word is thought by Stein to have been interpolated here.]
132 (return) [ Or, "are very highly accounted and tend to advancement."]
133 (return) [ "opposite to."]
134 (return) [ The words "and to the Persians" are omitted in some MSS.]