NOTES TO BOOK IX
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
117 (return) [ {aphuktos}: many Editors adopt the reading {aphulakto} from inferior MSS., "they fell upon him when he was, as one may say, off his guard."]
118 (return) [ {estergon ta pareonta}.]
119 (return) [ {ekpheugonta}: many Editors have {ekphugonta}, "after he had escaped."]
120 (return) [ {tarikhos eon}. The word {tarikhos} suggests the idea of human bodies embalmed, as well as of dried or salted meat.]
121 (return) [ {oi}: some Editors approve the conjecture {moi}, "impose upon myself this penalty."]
122 (return) [ {sanidas}: some read by conjecture {sanidi}, or {pros sanida}: cp. vii. 33.]
123 (return) [ Or, "when he had heard this, although he did not admire the proposal, yet bade them do so if they would."]