NOTES TO BOOK IX
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
79 (return) [ {aluktazon}, a word of doubtful meaning which is not found elsewhere.]
80 (return) [ i.e. 300,000.]
81 (return) [ {o Spartietes}: it has been proposed to read {Spartietai}, for it can hardly be supposed that the other two were not Spartans also.]
82 (return) [ One MS. at least calls him Aeimenstos, cp. ch. 64: Thucydides (iii. [Footnote 52) mentions Aeimnestos as the name of a Plataian citizen, the father of Lacon. Stein observes that in any case this cannot be that Arimnestos who is mentioned by Plutarch as commander of the Plataian contingent.]
83 (return) [ {eoutou axion prophumeumenou apodexasthai}.]
84 (return) [ {atelein te kai proedrin}.]
85 (return) [ vi. 92.]
86 (return) [ {andra pentaethlon}.]
87 (return) [ {oute daimonon oute theon}: heroes and in general divinities of the second order are included under the term {daimonon}.]
88 (return) [ Most of the commentators (and following them the historians) understand the imperfect {ediokon} to express the mere purpose to attempt, and suppose that this purpose was actually hindered by the Lacedemonians, but for a mere half-formed purpose the expression {mekhri Thessalies} seems to definite, and Diodorus states that Artabazos was pursued. I think therefore that Krüger is right in understanding {eon} of an attempt to dissuade which was not successful. The alternative version would be "they were for pursuing them as far as Thessaly, but the Lacedemonians prevented them from pursuing fugitives."]
89 (return) [ {akinakas}.]
90 (return) [ Whether three tithes were taken or only one is left uncertain.]
91 (return) [ "furniture furnished" is hardly tolerable; perhaps Herodotus wrote {skenen} for {kataskeuen} here.]
92 (return) [ The connexion here is not satisfactory, and the chapter is in part a continuation of chapter 81: It is possible that ch. 82 may be a later addition by the author, thrown in without much regard to the context.]
93 (return) [ "Whereas however the body of Mardonios had disappeared on the day after the battle (taken by whom I am not able to say....), it is reported with some show of reason that Dionysophanes, an Ephesian, was he who buried it." The construction however is irregular and broken by parentheses: possibly there is some corruption of text.]
94 (return) [ {tous irenas}. Spartans between twenty and thirty years old were so called. The MSS. have {ireas}.]
95 (return) [ {proxeinon}.]
96 (return) [ "fill up more calamities," cp. v. 4.]
97 (return) [ {es antilogien}.]
98 (return) [ {antilogies kuresein}.]
99 (return) [ {ten mesogaian tamnon tes odou}, cp. vii. 124: The expression seems almost equivalent to {tamnon ten mesen odon}, apart from any question of inland or coast roads.]
100 (return) [ {limo sustantas kai kamato}, "having struggled with hunger and fatigue."]
101 (return) [ {autos}: some MSS. read {outos}. If the text is right, it means Artabazos as distinguished from his troops.]
102 (return) [ i.e. "leader of the army."]
10201 (return) [ {en to Ionio kolpo}.]
103 (return) [ Stein reads {para Khona potamon}, "by the river Chon," a conjecture derived from Theognostus.]
104 (return) [ It is thought by some Editors that "the prophets" just above, and these words, "and they told them," are interpolated.]
105 (return) [ {emphuton mantiken}, as opposed to the {entekhnos mantike} possessed for example by Melampus, cp. ii. 49.]
106 (return) [ Or possibly "Calamoi."]
107 (return) [ i.e. 60,000.]
10701 (return) [ {ton Potneion}, i.e. either the Eumenides or Demeter and Persephone.]
108 (return) [ {apistous toisi Ellesi}. Perhaps the last two words are to be rejected, and {apistous} to be taken in its usual sense, "distrusted"; cp. viii. 22.]
109 (return) [ {neokhmon an ti poieein}.]
110 (return) [ {pheme eseptato}.]
111 (return) [ {eteralkea}, cp. viii. 11.]
112 (return) [ {ton Perseon}: perhaps we should read {ek ton Perseon}, "appointed by the Persians to guard the passes."]
113 (return) [ {ti neokhmon poieoien}.]
114 (return) [ {ten kephalen smatai}: the meaning is uncertain.]
115 (return) [ {Pou de kou me apolesas}: some Editors read {ko} for {kou} (by conjecture), and print the clause as a statement instead of a question, "not yet hast thou caused by ruin."]
116 (return) [ {en to aduto}.]