NOTES TO BOOK VIII
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Herodotus and Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)
39 (return) [ {te Metri kai te Koure}, Demeter and Persephone.]
40 (return) [ {te anakrisi}: cp. {anakrinomenous}, ix. 56: Some Editors, following inferior MSS., read {te krisi}, "at the judgment expressed."]
41 (return) [ {muriadon}, "ten thousands."]
42 (return) [ Or, "Hermione."]
43 (return) [ {oi perioikoi}: some Editors omit the article and translate "and these are the so-called Orneates or dwellers round (Argos)," Orneates being a name for the {perioikoi} of Argos, derived from the conquered city of Orneai.]
44 (return) [ {elpidi mainomene}, "with a mad hope."]
45 (return) [ {krateron Koron Ubrios uion}.]
46 (return) [ {dokeunt ana panta tithesthai}: the MSS. have also {pithesthai}. Possibly {tithesthai} might stand, though {anatithesthai} is not found elsewhere in this sense. Stein adopts in his last edition the conjecture {piesthai}, "swallow up."]
47 (return) [ {Kronides}.]
48 (return) [ {potnia Nike}.]
49 (return) [ i.e. about rivalry.]
50 (return) [ {ton epibateon}.]
51 (return) [ Many Editors reading {osa de} and {parainesas de}, make the stop after {antitithemena}: "and in all that is produced in the nature and constitution of man he exhorted them to choose the better."]
52 (return) [ {o daimonioi}, "strange men."]
53 (return) [ See ch. 22.]
54 (return) [ {pros de eti kai proselabeto}: the MSS. have {prosebaleto}. Most Editors translate, "Moreover Ariamnes... contributed to the fate of the Phenicians, being a friend (of the Ionians);" but this does not seem possible unless we read {philos eon Iosi} (or {Ionon}). Valla translates nearly as I have done. (It does not appear that {prosballesthai} is found elsewhere in the sense of {sumballesthai}.)]
55 (return) [ i.e. they who were commanded to execute them.]
56 (return) [ See vii. 179, 181.]
57 (return) [ See vi. 49, etc., and 73.]
58 (return) [ {keleta}.]
59 (return) [ {sumballontai}: the Athenians apparently are spoken of, for they alone believed the story.]
60 (return) [ {apoplesai}: this is the reading of the MSS.; but many Editors adopt corrections ({apoplesthai} or {apoplesthenai}). The subject to {apoplesai} is to be found in the preceding sentence and the connexion with {ton te allon panta k.t.l.} is a loose one. This in fact is added as an afterthought, the idea being originally to call attention simply to the fulfilment of the oracle of Lysistratos.]
61 (return) [ {phruxousi}: a conjectural emendation, adopted by most Editors, of {phrixousi}, "will shudder (at the sight of oars)."]
62 (return) [ {kat allon kai allon}: the MSS. have {kat allon}, but Valla's rendering is "alium atque alium."]
63 (return) [ {uper megalon aiorethenta}.]
64 (return) [ i.e. 300,000.]
65 (return) [ {os ek kakon}: some translate, "thinking that he had escaped from his troubles."]
66 (return) [ {toisi epikletoisi}, cp. vii. 8 and ix. 42.]
67 (return) [ i.e. Asia, as opposed to "these parts."]
68 (return) [ Stein would take {peri oikon ton son} with {oudemia sumphore}, but the order of words is against this.]
69 (return) [ {pollous pollakis agonas drameontai peri spheon auton}.]
70 (return) [ See i. 175: The manner of the repetition and some points in the diction raise suspicion that the passage is interpolated here; and so it is held to be by most Editors. In i. 175 we find {tris} instead of {dis}.]
71 (return) [ {upegagon}, cp. vi. 72, with the idea of bringing before a court for punishment, not "by underhand means," as it is understood by Larcher and Bähr.]
72 (return) [ "vengeance and Hermotimos."]
73 (return) [ {spheis... ergasaiato}: the MSS. read {sphi} (one {spheas}) and {ergasaito}, and this is retained by some Editors.]
74 (return) [ "taken."]
75 (return) [ {metabalon}: others translate, "he turned from them to the Athenians"; but cp. vii. 52: The words {pros tous Athenaious} are resumed by {sphi} with {elege}.]
76 (return) [ {kai epi spheon auton balomenoi}, "even at their own venture," cp. iii. 71.]
77 (return) [ {ta idia}, "things belonging to private persons."]
78 (return) [ {sophos}.]