NOTES TO BOOK IV.
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
1 (return) [ Some enterprises had been entrusted to others, e.g. the attack on Samos; but this had not been the case with the capture of Babylon, therefore some Editors have proposed corrections, e.g. {au tou} (Schweighäuser), and {autika} (Stein).]
2 (return) [ See i. 106.]
3 (return) [ {tes ano 'Asies}: this means Eastern Asia as distinguished from the coasts of Asia Minor; see i. 103 and 177.]
4 (return) [ {katapausantes}: the expression is awkward if meant to be equivalent to {kai katepausan}, but it is hardly improved by the alteration to {katapausontes}. Perhaps the clause is out of place.]
5 (return) [ {ponos}.]
6 (return) [ {peristixantes}: so the two best MSS.; others have {peristesantes} or {peristexantes}. The word {peristixantes} would be from {peristikho}, equivalent to {peristikhizo}, and is acknowledged in this sense by Hesychius.]
7 (return) [ The connexion is not clear either at the beginning of the chapter or here. This clause would seem to be a repetition of that at the beginning of the chapter, and that which comes between should be an explanation of the reason why the slaves are blinded. As it stands, however, we can only refer it to the clause which follows, {ou gar arotai eisi alla nomades}, and even so there is no real solution of the difficulty, for it is not explained why nomads should have blinded slaves. Perhaps the best resource is to suppose that some part of the explanation, in connexion with the manner of dealing with the milk, has been lost.]
8 (return) [ {te per}: a conjectural emendation for {e per}, "which is a very great lake".]
9 (return) [ {epi touton arkhonton}: the word {arkhonton} is omitted in some MSS. and by some Editors.]
10 (return) [ {sagarin}.]
11 (return) [ {tous basileious}: so Wesseling. The MSS. have {tous basileas}, "the kings," which may perhaps be used here as equivalent to {tous basileious}: some Editors, including Stein, adopt the conjecture {tou basileos}, "from the youngest of them who, was king, those who," etc.]
12 (return) [ {tou basileos}: some Editors read by conjecture {Skolotou basileos}, "after their king Scolotos".]
1201 (return) [ {katazonnumenon}: or {kata tade zonnumenon}, "girded in this manner".]
13 (return) [ {mekhanesasthai ten metera Skuthe}: the better MSS. read {mekhanasthai} and {Skuthen}: the meaning seems doubtful, and some Editors would omit the clause as an interpolation.]
14 (return) [ {pros pollous deomenon}: the better MSS. read {pro pollou deomena}. The passage has been emended in various ways, e.g. {pros pollous deoi menontas} (Buttmann), {pros pollous menontas} (Bredow), {pro spodou deomenon} (Stein).]
15 (return) [ {poiesas}: some authorities have {eipas}.]
16 (return) [ Italy means for Herodotus only the Southern part of the peninsula.]
17 (return) [ {diekosioisi}: so the best authorities; others have {priekosioisi}.]
18 (return) [ {'Italioteon}, i.e. Hellenic settlers in Italy.]
19 (return) [ {to agalmati to 'Apollonos}: {agalma} is used for anything dedicated to a god, most commonly the sacred image.]
20 (return) [ {katuperthe}: "above," i.e. beyond them towards the North. Similarly when dealing with Libya the writer uses the same word of those further from the coast towards the South; see ch. 174.]
21 (return) [ {en autoisi toisi epesi poieon}: "even in the verses which he composed," in which he might be expected as a poet to go somewhat beyond the literal truth.]
22 (return) [ Or, "Alizonians".]
23 (return) [ {'Olbiopolitas}.]
24 (return) [ See ch. 101, where the day's journey is reckoned at 200 stades (23 English miles).]
25 (return) [ The meaning of {eremos} here is not waste and barren land, but land without settled inhabitants.]
26 (return) [ i.e. "Man-eaters".]
27 (return) [ This is the reading of the MSS., but it is not consistent with the distance given in ch. 101, nor with the actual facts: some Editors therefore read "four" instead of "fourteen".]
28 (return) [ i.e. "Cliffs".]
29 (return) [ i.e. "Black-cloaks".]
30 (return) [ {'Argippaioi}: it is not certain that this is the form which ought to be read here: Latin writers make the name "Arimphaei," and in some MSS. it is given here as {'Orgempaioi}.]
31 (return) [ {agalmati}.]
32 (return) [ {ta genesia}.]
33 (return) [ Or, "violent".]
34 (return) [ Od. iv. 85.]
35 (return) [ {e phuonta phuein mogis}.]
36 (return) [ {prosthekas}, "additions".]
37 (return) [ i.e. of Apollo and Artemis.]
3701 (return) [ Omitting {legon}.]
38 (return) [ The word "Asia" is not contained in the MSS. and need not be inserted in the text, but it is implied, if not expressed; see chap. 41.]