NOTES TO BOOK IX
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
1 (return) [ "the same who at the former time also were of one accord together."]
2 (return) [ {ta ekeinon iskhura bouleumata}: some good MSS. omit {iskhura}, and so many Editors.]
3 (return) [ {up agnomosunes}.]
4 (return) [ {boulen}.]
5 (return) [ {exeneikai es ton dumon}.]
6 (return) [ {aleoren}.]
7 (return) [ Cp. viii. 140 (a).]
8 (return) [ {to men ap emeon outo akibdelon nemetai epi tous Ellenas}, "that which we owe to the Hellenes is thus paid in no counterfeit coin."]
9 (return) [ {ekeleusan}, i.e. "their bidding was" when they sent us.]
901 (return) [ This clause, "with no less—each man of them," is omitted in some MSS. and considered spurious by several Editors.]
10 (return) [ Cp. ch. 55.]
11 (return) [ {perioikon}.]
12 (return) [ {ton emerodromon}, cp. vi. 105.]
13 (return) [ {tugkhane eu bouleoumenos}: perhaps, "endeavour to take measures well."]
14 (return) [ {prodromon}, a conjectural emendation of {prodromos}.]
15 (return) [ {boiotarkhai}, i.e. the heads of the Boeotian confederacy.]
16 (return) [ {os epi deka stadious malista ke}.]
17 (return) [ {klinai}: several Editors have altered this, reading {klithenai} or {klinenai}, "they were made to recline."]
18 (return) [ {diapinonton}, cp. v. 18.]
19 (return) [ {polla phroneonta medenos krateein}.]
20 (return) [ {sphodra}: not quite satisfactory with {emedizon}, but it can hardly go with {ouk ekontes}, as Krüger suggests.]
21 (return) [ {pheme}, as in ch. 100.]
22 (return) [ {proopto thanato}.]
23 (return) [ {prosballontes}: most of the MSS. have {prosbalontes}, and so also in ch. 21 and 22 they have {prosbalouses}.]
24 (return) [ i.e. the retreat with which each charge ended and the turn from retreat in preparation for a fresh charge. So much would be done without word of command, before reining in their horses.]
25 (return) [ {ephoiteon}.]
2501 (return) [ Or, according to some MSS., "much contention in argument."]
26 (return) [ i.e. the left wing.]
27 (return) [ The name apparently should be Kepheus, but there is no authority for changing the text.]
28 (return) [ This is the number of nations mentioned in vii. 61-80 as composing the land-army of Xerxes.]
29 (return) [ {oi epiphoiteontes}.]
30 (return) [ {peri andra ekaston}.]
31 (return) [ i.e. 38,700.]
32 (return) [ i.e. 69,500.]
33 (return) [ i.e. 110,000.]
34 (return) [ {opla de oud outoi eikhon}: i.e. these too must be reckoned with the light-armed.]
35 (return) [ Cp. ii. 164.]
36 (return) [ {makhairophoroi}: cp. vii. 89.]
37 (return) [ i.e. 300,000: see viii. 113.]
38 (return) [ {geneos tou Iamideon}: the MSS. have {Klutiaden} after {Iamideon}, but the Clytiadai seem to have been a distinct family of soothsayers.]