NOTES TO BOOK VI.
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Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
76 (return) [ i.e. take an oath to that effect.]
77 (return) [ See v. 80.]
78 (return) [ {penteteris}. The reading {penteres}, which is given by most of the MSS. and by several Editors, can hardly be defended.]
79 (return) [ {kai en gar}, "and since there was."]
80 (return) [ {Knoithou kaleomenos}: cp. vii. 143.]
81 (return) [ {thesmophorou}.]
82 (return) [ {pentaethlon epaskesas}.]
83 (return) [ {mounomakhien epaskeon}, "practising single combat," as if training for the games.]
84 (return) [ {para te Ikarion}: the use of {para} and the absence of the article may justify the conjecture {para te Ikarion} (or {Ikaron}) "by Icaria" (or "Icaros"), the island from which the Icarian Sea had its name.]
85 (return) [ This perhaps should be emended, for the event referred to occurred two years before, cp. ch. 46 and 48: The reading {trito proteron etei} has been proposed.]
86 (return) [ See v. 33 ff.]
8601 (return) [ i.e. Apollo: or perhaps more generally, "God," as in ch. 27.]
87 (return) [ This in brackets is probably an interpolation. It is omitted by some of the best MSS. Some Editors suspect the genuineness of the next four lines also, on internal grounds.]
88 (return) [ {erxies}, perhaps meaning "worker."]
89 (return) [ {areios}.]
90 (return) [ {megas areios}.]
91 (return) [ {ippoboteon}, lit. "horse-breeding": see v. 77.]
9101 (return) [ Or (according to some MSS.), "having come to shore at these places."]
92 (return) [ {katergontes}: the word is not elsewhere found intransitive, yet it is rather difficult to supply {tous Athenaious}. Some alterations have been proposed, but none probable.]
93 (return) [ Lit. "and it happened that in winning this victory he won the same victory as his half-brother Miltiades." See ch. 36.]
94 (return) [ Or, according to some authorities, "Philippides."]
95 (return) [ Lit. "except the circle were full."]
96 (return) [ Or "Aigilei01."]
97 (return) [ Lit. "by violence, having coughed."]
98 (return) [ "by the bean."]
99 (return) [ {es se toi}, a conjectural emendation of {es se ti}.]
100 (return) [ {prutaneie tes emeres}.]
101 (return) [ Some Editors propose to omit {gar} or alter it. If it be allowed to stand, the meaning must be that the importance of the place is testified by the commemoration mentioned.]
102 (return) [ {es tas panegurias}, some MSS. have {kai panegurias}, "hold sacrifices and solemn assemblies."]
103 (return) [ {penteterisi}.]
104 (return) [ Lit. "the good things."]
105 (return) [ {stadioi}: the distance would be rather over 1600 yards.]
106 (return) [ Whether this is thrown in here by the historian as an explanation of the rapid advance, or as an additional source of wonder on the part of the Persians at the boldness of the Athenians, is not clear.]
107 (return) [ Or (according to some MSS.) "having taken hold."]
108 (return) [ The account of how the oil was dealt with has perhaps dropt out: one MS. and the Aldine edition have "the oil they collect in vessels, and this," etc.]
109 (return) [ This chapter is omitted by several of the best MSS., and is almost certainly an interpolation. (In the Medicean MS. it has been added in the margin by a later hand.)]
110 (return) [ Answering to "Callias for his part" at the end of ch. 121, the connexion being broken by the interpolated passage.]
111 (return) [ {ouden esson}.]
112 (return) [ {patre}, "family," or possibly "country," as in ch. 128.]
113 (return) [ {to legomeno es to meson}: perhaps only "general conversation."]