NOTES TO BOOK VII
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
78 (return) [ {keletas}, "single horses."]
79 (return) [ This name is apparently placed here wrongly. It has been proposed to read {Kaspeiroi} or {Paktues}.]
80 (return) [ {ippeue}: the greater number of MSS. have {ippeuei} here as at the beginning of ch. 84, to which this is a reference back, but with a difference of meaning. There the author seemed to begin with the intention of giving a full list of the cavalry force of the Persian Empire, and then confined his account to those actually present on this occasion, whereas here the word in combination with {mouna} refers only to those just enumerated.]
81 (return) [ i.e. 80,000.]
82 (return) [ {Suroisi}, see note on ii. 104.]
83 (return) [ {tukous}, which appears to mean ordinarily a tool for stone-cutting.]
84 (return) [ {mitresi}, perhaps "turbans."]
85 (return) [ {kithonas}: there is some probability in the suggestion of {kitarias} here, for we should expect mention of a head-covering, and the word {kitaris} (which is explained to mean the same as {tiara}), is quoted by Pollux as occurring in Herodotus.]
86 (return) [ {kithonas}.]
87 (return) [ {drepana}, "reaping-hooks," cp. v. 112.]
88 (return) [ See i. 171.]
89 (return) [ {Pelasgoi Aigialees}.]
90 (return) [ {kerkouroi}.]
91 (return) [ {makra}: some MSS. and editions have {smikra}, "small."]
92 (return) [ Or "Mapen."]
93 (return) [ Or "Seldomos."]
94 (return) [ {metopedon}.]
95 (return) [ {me oentes arthmioi}. This is generally taken to mean, "unless they were of one mind together"; but that would very much weaken the force of the remark, and {arthmios} elsewhere is the opposite of {polemios}, cp. vi. 83 and ix. 9, 37: Xerxes professes enmity only against those who had refused to give the tokens of submission.]
96 (return) [ {men mounoisi}: these words are omitted in some good MSS., and {mounoisi} has perhaps been introduced from the preceding sentence. The thing referred to in {touto} is the power of fighting in single combat with many at once, which Demaratos is supposed to have claimed for the whole community of the Spartans.]
97 (return) [ {stergein malista}.]
98 (return) [ {oudamoi ko}.]
99 (return) [ Or, "Strauos."]
100 (return) [ Or, "Compsatos."]
101 (return) [ {tas epeirotidas polis}: it is not clear why these are thus distinguished. Stein suggests {Thasion tas epeirotidas polis}, cp. ch. [Footnote 118; and if that be the true reading {ion} is probably a remnant of {Thasion} after {khoras}.]
102 (return) [ Or, "Pistiros."]
103 (return) [ {oi propheteountes}, i.e. those who interpret the utterances of the Oracle, cp. viii. 36.]
104 (return) [ {promantis}.]
105 (return) [ {kai ouden poikiloteron}, an expression of which the meaning is not quite clear; perhaps "and the oracles are not at all more obscure," cp. Eur. Phoen. 470 and Hel. 711 (quoted by Bähr).]
106 (return) [ "Ennea Hodoi."]
107 (return) [ Cp. iii. 84.]
108 (return) [ The "royal cubit" is about 20 inches; the {daktulos}, "finger's breadth," is rather less than ¾ inch.]
109 (return) [ Or, "Cape Canastraion."]
110 (return) [ Or "Echeidoros": so it is usually called, but not by any MS. here, and by a few only in ch. 127.]
111 (return) [ {pro mesogaian tamnon tes odou}: cp. iv. 12 and ix. 89.]
112 (return) [ Cp. ch. 6 and 174: but it does not appear that the Aleuadai, of whom Xerxes is here speaking, ever thought of resistance, and perhaps {gnosimakheontes} means, "when they submitted without resistance."]
113 (return) [ Some MSS. have {Ainienes} for {Enienes}.]
114 (return) [ {dekateusai}: there is sufficient authority for this rendering of {dekateuein}, and it seems better here than to understand the word to refer only to a "tithing" of goods.]
115 (return) [ {es to barathron}, the place of execution at Athens.]
116 (return) [ "undesirable thing."]
117 (return) [ {ouk ex isou}: i.e. it is one-sided, because the speaker has had experience of only one of the alternatives.]