NOTES TO BOOK IV.
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
39 (return) [ {aktai}.]
40 (return) [ {ou legousa ei me nomo}.]
41 (return) [ i.e. 100,000 fathoms, equivalent to 1000 stades; see ii. 6, note 10.]
42 (return) [ {oude sumballein axie}.]
43 (return) [ ii. 158.]
4301 (return) [ {brota}: some MSS. have {probata} "cattle".]
44 (return) [ {omoia parekhomene}: the construction is confused, but the meaning is that all but the Eastern parts are known to be surrounded by sea.]
45 (return) [ {logion}: some MSS. have {logimon}, "of reputation".]
46 (return) [ Stein reads {eisi de} for {eisi de}, and punctuates so that the meaning is, "it has become the greatest of all rivers in the following manner:—besides other rivers which flow into it, those which especially make it great are as follows".]
47 (return) [ {pente men oi}: this perhaps requires emendation, but the corrections proposed are hardly satisfactory, e.g. {pente megaloi} or {pente monoi}.]
48 (return) [ Or "Skios": called by Thucydides "Oskios" (ii. 96).]
49 (return) [ {eti}: most of the MSS. give {esti}, which is adopted by some Editors.]
50 (return) [ "Sacred Ways".]
51 (return) [ {Gerreon}: in some MSS. {Gerrou}, "the region called Gerros".]
52 (return) [ {tesserakonta}: some Editors have altered this number, but without authority or sufficient reason.]
53 (return) [ {di eremou}: see note 25 on ch. 18. The region here spoken of is that between the Gerrians and the agricultural Scythians.]
5301 (return) [ {es touto elos}: i.e. the Dneiper-Liman. (The Medicean and Florentine MSS. read {es to elos}, not {es to telos}, as hitherto reported.)]
54 (return) [ {eon embolon tes khores}.]
55 (return) [ {Metros}: i.e. the Mother of the gods, Kybele, cp. ch. 76; some less good authorities have {Demetros}.]
56 (return) [ {reei de}: most MSS. have {reei men gar}.]
57 (return) [ Or, "Apia".]
58 (return) [ Or, "Goitosyros".]
59 (return) [ The MSS. have also "Arippasa" and "Artimpasa".]
60 (return) [ The authorities have also "Thagimasa" and "Thamimasidas".]
61 (return) [ {ton arkheion}: some read by conjecture {en to arkheio}, "at the seat of government," or "in the public place".]
62 (return) [ {eson t' epi stadious treis}.]
63 (return) [ {upo ton kheimonon}.]
64 (return) [ {akinakes}.]
65 (return) [ {agalma}: see note 19 on ch. 15.]
66 (return) [ {kata per baitas}.]
67 (return) [ Or, "and put them together in one bundle".]
68 (return) [ See i. 105.]
69 (return) [ {kuperou}: it is not clear what plant is meant.]
70 (return) [ i.e. for this purpose. The general use of bronze is attested by ch. 81.]
71 (return) [ {ode anabibazontes, epean k.t.l}: the reference of {ode} is directly to the clause {epean——trakhelou}, though in sense it refers equally to the following, {katothen de k.t.l}. Some Editors punctuate thus, {ode anabibazontes epean} and omit {de} after {katothen}, making the reference of {ode} to the latter clause alone.]
72 (return) [ {oruontai}, as in iii. 117, but here they howl for pleasure.]
73 (return) [ Like the Egyptians for example, cp. ii. 91.]
74 (return) [ {mete ge on allelon}: the MSS. have {me ti ge on allelon}. Most Editors read {allon} for {allelon} and alter the other words in various ways ({me toi ge on, me toigaron} etc.), taking {me} as in {me oti} (ne dicam aliorum). The reading which I have adopted is based on that of Stein, who reads {mete teon allon} and quotes vii. 142, {oute ge alloisi 'Ellenon oudamoisi, umin de de kai dia panton ekista}. With {allon} the meaning is, "rejecting those of other nations and especially those of the Hellenes". For the use of {me} after {pheugein} cp. ii. 91.]
75 (return) [ Or, according to some MSS., "as they proved in the case of Anacharsis and afterwards of Skyles".]
76 (return) [ {gen pollen}.]