The history of Herodotus Volume II Part 20

131 [ {ton peri ten Ellada Ellenon ta ameino phroneonton}: the MSS. have {ton} also after {Ellenon}, which would mean "those of the h.e.l.lenes in h.e.l.las itself, who were of the better mind;" but the expression {ton ta ameino phroneouseon peri ten Ellada} occurs in ch. 172: Some Editors omit {Ellenon} as well as {ton}.]

132 [ {egkekremenoi} (from {egkerannumi}, cp. v. 124), a conjectural emendation (by Reiske) of {egkekhremenoi}. Others have conjectured {egkekheiremenoi} or {egegermenoi}.]

133 [ {te ge alle}: many Editors adopt the conjecture {tede alle} "is like the following, which he expressed on another occasion."]

134 [ See vi. 77: This calamity had occurred about fourteen years before, and it was not in order to recover from this that the Argives wished now for a thirty years' truce; but warned by this they desired (they said) to guard against the consequence of a similar disaster in fighting with the Persians, against whom, according to their own account, they were going to defend themselves independently. So great was their fear of this that, "though fearing the oracle," they were willing to disobey it on certain conditions.]

135 [ {probalaion}, cp. {probolous}, ch. 76.]

136 [ {es tous pleunas}.]

137 [ Cp. v. 53.]

138 [ {ethelousi}: this is omitted in most of the MSS., but contained in several of the best. Many Editors have omitted it.]

139 [ {ta oikeia kaka} seems to mean the grievances which each has against his neighbours, "if all the nations of men should bring together into one place their own grievances against their neighbours, desiring to make a settlement with them, each people, when they had examined closely the grievances of others against themselves, would gladly carry away back with them those which they had brought," judging that they had offended others more than they had suffered themselves.]

140 [ {oiketor o en Gele}: some Editors read by conjecture {oiketor eon Geles}, others {oiketor en Gele}.]

141 [ {iropsantai ton khthonion theon}: cp. vi. 134.]

142 [ i.e. by direct inspiration.]

143 [ {en dorupsoros}: the MSS. have {os en dorupsoros}. Some Editors mark a lacuna.]

144 [ {gamorous}, the name given to the highest cla.s.s of citizens.]

145 [ Or, "Killyrians." They were conquered Sicanians, in the position of the Spartan Helots.]

146 [ {pakheas}: cp. v. 30.]

147 [ {gar}: inserted conjecturally by many Editors.]

148 [ See v. 46.]

149 [ {e ke meg oimexeie}, the beginning of a Homeric hexameter, cp. Il.

vii. 125.]

150 [ Or, "since your speech is so adverse."]

151 [ See Il. ii. 552.]

152 [ Some Editors mark this explanation "Now this is the meaning-- year," as interpolated.]

153 [ {purannida}.]

154 [ {es meson Kooisi katatheis ten arkhen}.]

155 [ {para Samion}: this is the reading of the best MSS.: others have {meta Samion}, "together with the Samians," which is adopted by many Editors. There can be little doubt however that the Skythes mentioned in vi. 23 was the father of this Cadmos, and we know from Thuc. vi. 4 that the Samians were deprived of the town soon after they had taken it, by Anaxilaos, who gave it the name of Messene, and no doubt put Cadmos in possession of it, as the son of the former king.]

156 [ Cp. ch. 154.]

157 [ i.e. 300,000.]

159 [ The MSS. add either {os Karkhedonioi}, or {os Karkhedonioi kai Surekosioi}, but the testimony of the Carthaginians has just been given, {os Phoinikes legousi}, and the Syracusans professed to be unable to discover anything of him at all. Most of the Editors omit or alter the words.]

160 [ {epimemphesthe}: some Editors have tried corrections, e.g. {ou ti memnesthe}, "do ye not remember," or {epimemnesthe}, "remember"; but cp.

viii. 106, {oste se me mempsasthai ten... diken}.]

161 [ {osa umin... Minos epempse menion dakrumata}. The oracle would seem to have been in iambic verse.]

162 [ {parentheke}.]

163 [ {ou boulomenoi}, apparently equivalent to {me boulemenoi}.]

164 [ Cp. viii. 111.]

165 [ i.e. the six commanders of divisions {morai} in the Spartan army.]

166 [ {mia}: for this most MSS. have {ama}. Perhaps the true reading is {ama mia}.]

167 [ {amaxitos moune}, cp. ch. 200.]

168 [ {Khutrous}.]

169 [ {ton epibateon autes}.]

170 [ {emeroskopous}: perhaps simply "scouts," cp. ch. 219, by which it would seem that they were at their posts by night also, though naturally they would not see much except by day.]

171 [ i.e. "Ant."]

172 [ {autoi}.]

173 [ i.e. 241,400.]

174 [ {epebateuon}.]

175 [ 36,210.]

176 [ {o ti pleon en auton e ela.s.son}. In ch. 97, which is referred to just above, these ships are stated to have been of many different kinds, and not only fifty-oared galleys.]

177 [ 240,000.]

178 [ 517,610.]

179 [ 1,700,000: see ch. 60.]

180 [ 80,000.]