NOTES TO BOOK VII
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
159 (return) [ The MSS. add either {os Karkhedonioi}, or {os Karkhedonioi kai Surekosioi}, but the testimony of the Carthaginians has just been given, {os Phoinikes legousi}, and the Syracusans professed to be unable to discover anything of him at all. Most of the Editors omit or alter the words.]
160 (return) [ {epimemphesthe}: some Editors have tried corrections, e.g. {ou ti memnesthe}, "do ye not remember," or {epimemnesthe}, "remember"; but cp. viii. 106, {oste se me mempsasthai ten... diken}.]
161 (return) [ {osa umin... Minos epempse menion dakrumata}. The oracle would seem to have been in iambic verse.]
162 (return) [ {parentheke}.]
163 (return) [ {ou boulomenoi}, apparently equivalent to {me boulemenoi}.]
164 (return) [ Cp. viii. 111.]
165 (return) [ i.e. the six commanders of divisions {morai} in the Spartan army.]
166 (return) [ {mia}: for this most MSS. have {ama}. Perhaps the true reading is {ama mia}.]
167 (return) [ {amaxitos moune}, cp. ch. 200.]
168 (return) [ {Khutrous}.]
169 (return) [ {ton epibateon autes}.]
170 (return) [ {emeroskopous}: perhaps simply "scouts," cp. ch. 219, by which it would seem that they were at their posts by night also, though naturally they would not see much except by day.]
171 (return) [ i.e. "Ant."]
172 (return) [ {autoi}.]
173 (return) [ i.e. 241,400.]
174 (return) [ {epebateuon}.]
175 (return) [ 36,210.]
176 (return) [ {o ti pleon en auton e elasson}. In ch. 97, which is referred to just above, these ships are stated to have been of many different kinds, and not only fifty-oared galleys.]
177 (return) [ 240,000.]
178 (return) [ 517,610.]
179 (return) [ 1,700,000: see ch. 60.]
180 (return) [ 80,000.]
181 (return) [ 2,317,610.]
182 (return) [ {dokesin de dei legein}.]
183 (return) [ Some MSS. have {Ainienes} for {Enienes}.]
184 (return) [ 300,000.]
185 (return) [ 2,641,610.]
186 (return) [ {tou makhimou toutou}.]
187 (return) [ {akatoisi}.]
188 (return) [ 5,283,220.]
189 (return) [ {khoinika}, the usual daily allowance.]
190 (return) [ The {medimnos} is about a bushel and a half, and is equal to 48 {khoinikes}. The reckoning here of 110,340 {medimnoi} is wrong, owing apparently to the setting down of some numbers in the quotient which were in fact part of the dividend.]
191 (return) [ {prokrossai ormeonto es ponton}: the meaning of {prokrossai} is doubtful, but the introduction of the word is probably due to a reminiscence of Homer, Il. xiv. 35, where the ships are described as drawn up in rows one behind the other on shore, and where {prokrossas} is often explained to mean {klimakedon}, i.e. either in steps one behind the other owing to the rise of the beach, or in the arrangement of the quincunx. Probably in this passage the idea is rather of the prows projecting in rows like battlements {krossai}, and this is the sense in which the word is used by Herodotus elsewhere (iv. 152). The word {krossai} however is used for the successively rising stages of the pyramids (ii. 125), and {prokrossos} may mean simply "in a row," or "one behind the other," which would suit all passages in which it occurs, and would explain the expression {prokrossoi pheromenoi epi ton kindunon}, quoted by Athenæus.]
192 (return) [ {apeliotes}. Evidently, from its name {Ellespontias} and from its being afterwards called {Boreas}, it was actually a North-East Wind.]
193 (return) [ i.e. "Ovens."]
194 (return) [ {exebrassonto}.]
195 (return) [ {thesaurous}.]
196 (return) [ The word {khrusea}, "of gold," is omitted by some Editors.]
197 (return) [ "in his case also {kai touton} there was an unpleasing misfortune of the slaying of a child {paidophonos} which troubled him," i.e. he like others had misfortunes to temper his prosperity.]
198 (return) [ {goesi}, (from a supposed word {goe}): a correction of {geosi}, "by enchanters," which is retained by Stein. Some read {khoesi}, "with libations," others {boesi}, "with cries."]