The history of Herodotus Volume II Part 26

23 [ {neou}.]

24 [ {megarou}.]

25 [ i.e. of Athene Polias, the Erechtheion; so throughout this account.]

26 [ {sunerree}, "kept flowing together."]

2601 [ Or, "Hermione."]

27 [ See i. 56.]

28 [ See ch. 31.]

29 [ {pros pantas tous allous}, "in comparison with all the rest," cp.

iii. 94.]

30 [ {stratarkheo}: a vague expression, because being introduced after Kecrops he could not have the t.i.tle of king.]

31 [ The number obtained by adding up the separate contingents is 366. Many Editors suppose that the s.h.i.+ps with which the Eginetans were guarding their own coast (ch. 46) are counted here, and quote the authority of Pausanias for the statement that the Eginetans supplied more s.h.i.+ps than any others except the Athenians. Stein suggests the insertion of the number twelve in ch. 46.]

3101 [ Or, "Thespeia."]

32 [ i.e. "Areopagus."]

33 [ i.e. the North side.]

34 [ {megaron}.]

35 [ {neos}.]

36 [ {pollos en en tois logois}: cp. ix. 91.]

37 [ See vii. 141-143.]

38 [ {autothen ik Salaminos}.]

39 [ {te Metri kai te Koure}, Demeter and Persephone.]

40 [ {te anakrisi}: cp. {anakrinomenous}, ix. 56: Some Editors, following inferior MSS., read {te krisi}, "at the judgment expressed."]

41 [ {muriadon}, "ten thousands."]

42 [ Or, "Hermione."]

43 [ {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 [ {elpidi mainomene}, "with a mad hope."]

45 [ {krateron Koron Ubrios uion}.]

46 [ {dokeunt ana panta t.i.thesthai}: the MSS. have also {pithesthai}.

Possibly {t.i.thesthai} might stand, though {anat.i.thesthai} is not found elsewhere in this sense. Stein adopts in his last edition the conjecture {piesthai}, "swallow up."]

47 [ {Kronides}.]

48 [ {potnia Nike}.]

49 [ i.e. about rivalry.]

50 [ {ton epibateon}.]

51 [ Many Editors reading {osa de} and {parainesas de}, make the stop after {ant.i.tithemena}: "and in all that is produced in the nature and const.i.tution of man he exhorted them to choose the better."]

52 [ {o daimonioi}, "strange men."]

53 [ See ch. 22.]

54 [ {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 [ i.e. they who were commanded to execute them.]

56 [ See vii. 179, 181.]

57 [ See vi. 49, etc., and 73.]

58 [ {keleta}.]

59 [ {sumballontai}: the Athenians apparently are spoken of, for they alone believed the story.]

60 [ {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 [ {phruxousi}: a conjectural emendation, adopted by most Editors, of {phrixousi}, "will shudder (at the sight of oars)."]

62 [ {kat allon kai allon}: the MSS. have {kat allon}, but Valla's rendering is "alium atque alium."]

63 [ {uper megalon aiorethenta}.]

64 [ i.e. 300,000.]

65 [ {os ek kakon}: some translate, "thinking that he had escaped from his troubles."]

66 [ {toisi epikletoisi}, cp. vii. 8 and ix. 42.]

67 [ i.e. Asia, as opposed to "these parts."]

68 [ Stein would take {peri oikon ton son} with {oudemia sumph.o.r.e}, but the order of words is against this.]

69 [ {pollous pollakis agonas drameontai peri spheon auton}.]