NOTES TO BOOK IV.
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
154 (return) [ i.e. further from the coast, so {katuperthe}, ch. 174 etc., cp. ch. 16.]
155 (return) [ Or "Cabales".]
156 (return) [ See i. 216.]
157 (return) [ Distinct from the people of the same name mentioned in ch. 183: those here mentioned are called "Gamphasantes" by Pliny.]
158 (return) [ {glukuteta}, "sweetness".]
159 (return) [ {allen te ekatomben kai de kai}.]
160 (return) [ {epithespisanta to tripodi}, which can hardly mean "prophesied sitting upon the tripod".]
161 (return) [ Lit. "the men come together regularly to one place within three months," which seems to mean that meetings are held every three months, before one of which the child is brought.]
162 (return) [ See ii. 42.]
163 (return) [ i.e. in the middle of the morning.]
164 (return) [ {tripsin}: the "feel" to the touch: hence it might mean either hardness or softness according to the context.]
165 (return) [ {troglodutas}: "Troglodytes".]
166 (return) [ {uperballonti}: "when his heat is greatest".]
167 (return) [ {ede}.]
168 (return) [ Or "red".]
169 (return) [ {domon}: Reiske reads {omon} by conjecture, "over his shoulder".]
170 (return) [ Or (according to some MSS.), "practise this much and do it well".]
171 (return) [ {akatapseusta}. Several Editors have adopted the conjecture {katapseusta}, "other fabulous beasts".]
172 (return) [ {orues}: perhaps for {oruges} from {orux}, a kind of antelope.]
173 (return) [ {diktues}: the meaning is uncertain.]
174 (return) [ {ekhinees}, "urchins".]
175 (return) [ Or "Zabykes".]
176 (return) [ Or "Zygantes".]
177 (return) [ {eie d' an pan}: cp. v. 9. Some translate, "and this might well be so".]
178 (return) [ {oud' areten einai tis e Libue spoudaie}.]
179 (return) [ i.e. corn; cp. i. 193.]
180 (return) [ {bounous}.]
181 (return) [ See ch. 167.]
182 (return) [ {meden allo neokhmoun kata Barkaious}: cp. v. 19.]
183 (return) [ {paralabontes}.]
184 (return) [ {epiphthonoi}.]