NOTES TO BOOK II
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
75 (return) [ {to kommi}.]
76 (return) [ {nros}.]
77 (return) [ Or, "a pleasant sweet taste."]
78 (return) [ {apala}, "soft."]
79 (return) [ {kat oligous ton kegkhron}.]
80 (return) [ {apo ton sillikuprion tou karpou}.]
81 (return) [ {zuga}, to tie the sides and serve as a partial deck.]
82 (return) [ {esti de oud' outos}: a few MSS. have {ouk} instead of {oud'}, and most Editors follow them. The meaning however seems to be that even here the course in time of flood is different, and much more in the lower parts.]
83 (return) [ {os apergmenos ree}: the MSS. mostly have {os apergmenos reei}, in place of which I have adopted the correction of Stein. Most other Editors read {os apergmenos peei} (following a few inferior MSS.), "the bend of the Nile which flows thus confined."]
84 (return) [ Not therefore in the Delta, to which in ch. 15 was assigned a later origin than this.]
85 (return) [ {kat' ouden einai lamprotetos}: Stein reads {kai} for {kat'}, thus making the whole chapter parenthetical, with {ou gar elegon} answered by {parameipsamenos on}, a conjecture which is ingenious but not quite convincing.]
86 (return) [ {stratien pollen labon}: most of the MSS. have {ton} after {pollen}, which perhaps indicates that some words are lost.]
87 (return) [ {kai prosotata}: many MSS. have {kai ou prosotata}, which is defended by some Editors in the sense of a comparative, "and not further."]
88 (return) [ {Suroi} in the better MSS.; see note in i.6.]
89 (return) [ {Surioi}.]
90 (return) [ {kata tauta}: the better MSS. have {kai kata tauta}, which might be taken with what follows, punctuating after {ergazontai} (as in the Medicean MS.): "they and the Egyptians alone of all nations work flax; and so likewise they resemble one another in their whole manner of living."]
91 (return) [ {polon}, i.e. the concave sun-dial, in shape like the vault of heaven.]
92 (return) [ The gnomon would be an upright staff or an obelisk for observation of the length of the shadow.]
93 (return) [ i.e. Red Clod.]
94 (return) [ {Turion stratopedon}, i.e. "the Tyrian quarter" of the town: cp. ch. 154.]
95 (return) [ {ten sen}, or {tauten}, "this land."]
96 (return) [ {es o meteke auton}, "until at last he dismissed it"; but the construction is very irregular, and there is probably some corruption of text. Stein reads {ekon} by conjecture for {es o}.]
97 (return) [ {delon de kata per epoiese}: a conjectural emendation of {delon de' kata gar epoiese}, which some editors retain, translating thus, "and this is clear; for according to the manner in which Homer described the wanderings of Alexander, etc., it is clear how, etc."]
98 (return) [ Il. vi. 289. The sixth book is not ordinarily included in the {Diomedeos aristeia}.]
99 (return) [ Od. iv. 227. These references to the Odyssey are by some thought to be interpolations, because they refer only to the visit of Menelaos to Egypt after the fall of Troy; but Herodotus is arguing that Homer, while rejecting the legend of Helen's stay in Egypt during the war, yet has traces of it left in this later visit to Egypt of Menelaos and Helen, as well as in the visit of Paris and Helen to Sidon.]
100 (return) [ Od. iv. 351.]
101 (return) [ {kai tode to khorion}: probably {to khorion} ought to be struck out: "this also is evident."]
102 (return) [ {podeonas}, being the feet of the animals whose skins they were.]
103 (return) [ Cp. vii. 152.]
104 (return) [ {elasai}, which may be intransitive, "rushed into every kind of evil."]
105 (return) [ {stadioi}.]
106 (return) [ {krossas}.]
107 (return) [ {bomidas}.]
108 (return) [ i.e. the three small pyramids just to the East of the great pyramid.]
109 (return) [ {oute gar k.t.l.}, "for there are no underground chambers," etc. Something which was in the mind of the writer has been omitted either by himself or his copyists, "and inferior to it also in other respects, for," etc. unless, as Stein supposes, we have here a later addition thrown in without regard to the connexion.]
110 (return) [ {touto megathos}, "as regards attaining the same size," but probably the text is corrupt. Stein reads {to megathos} in his later editions.]
111 (return) [ Or, "Philition."]
112 (return) [ {to theo}, the goddess Leto, cp. i. 105.]
113 (return) [ {suntakhunein auton ton bion}: some MSS. and Editors read {auto} for {auton}, "that heaven was shortening his life."]
114 (return) [ More literally, "bidding him take up the blood-money, who would." The people of Delphi are said to have put Esop to death and to have been ordered by the Oracle to make compensation.]