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The History of Herodotus — Volume 2

NOTES TO BOOK VII

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238 (return) [ {ta seoutou de tithemenos eu gnomen ekho}: for {ekho} some inferior MSS. have {ekhe}, which is adopted by several Editors, "Rather set thy affairs in good order and determine not to consider," etc.]
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239 (return) [ {to pareon troma}, i.e. their defeat.]
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240 (return) [ {kai esti dusmenes te sige}. Some commentators understand {te sige} to mean "secretly," like {sige}, viii. 74.]
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241 (return) [ See ch. 220.]
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242 (return) [ Many Editors pronounce the last chapter to be an interpolation, but perhaps with hardly sufficient reason.]

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The History of Herodotus — Volume 2, Project Gutenberg eBook #2456

NOTES TO BOOK VII BOOK VIII. THE EIGHTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED URANIA