By Water & Blood

Part 3

87 (return) [ {orgen ouk akros}: this is the reading of all the best MSS., and it is sufficiently supported by the parallel of v. 124, {psukhen ouk akros}. Most Editors however have adopted the reading {orgen akros}, as equivalent to {akrakholos}, "quick-tempered."]

88 (return) [ It has been suggested by some that this clause is not genuine. It should not, however, be taken to refer to the battle which was interrupted by the eclipse, for (1) that did not occur in the period here spoken of; (2) the next clause is introduced by {de} (which can hardly here stand for {gar}); (3) when the eclipse occurred the fighting ceased, therefore it was no more a {nuktomakhin} than any other battle which is interrupted by darkness coming on.]

89 (return) [ See ch. 188. Nabunita was his true name.]

90 (return) [ See ch. 107 ff.]

91 (return) [ Not "somewhere near the city of Sinope," for it must have been at a considerable distance and probably far inland. Sinope itself is at least fifty miles to the west of the Halys. I take it to mean that Pteria was nearly due south of Sinope, i.e. that the nearest road from Pteria to the sea led to Sinope. Pteria no doubt was the name of a region as well as of a city.]

92 (return) [ {anastatous epoiese}.]

93 (return) [ This is the son of the man mentioned in ch. 74.]

94 (return) [ {us en autou xeinikos}. Stein translates "so much of it as was mercenary," but it may be doubted if this is possible. Mr. Woods, "which army of his was a foreign one."]

95 (return) [ {Metros Dindumenes}, i.e. Kybele: the mountain is Dindymos in Phrygia.]

96 (return) [ i.e. the whole strip of territory to the West of the peninsula of Argolis, which includes Thyrea and extends southwards to Malea: "westwards as far as Malea" would be absurd.]

97 (return) [ {outos}: a conjectural emendation of {autos}.]

98 (return) [ {autos}: some MSS. read {o autos}, "this same man."]

99 (return) [ {aneneikamenon}, nearly equivalent to {anastemaxanta} (cp. Hom. Il. xix. 314), {mnesamenos d' adinos aneneikato phonesen te}. Some translate it here, "he recovered himself," cp. ch. 116, {aneneikhtheis}.]

100 (return) [ {ubristai}.]

101 (return) [ {proesousi}: a conjectural emendation of {poiesousi}, adopted in most of the modern editions.]

102 (return) [ {touto oneidisai}: or {touton oneidisai}, "to reproach the god with these things." The best MSS. have {touto}.]

103 (return) [ {to kai... eipe ta eipe Loxias k.t.l.}: various emendations have been proposed. If any one is to be adopted, the boldest would perhaps be the best, {to de kai... eipe Loxias}.]

104 (return) [ {oia te kai alle khore}, "such as other lands have."]

105 (return) [ {stadioi ex kai duo plethra}.]

106 (return) [ {plethra tria kai deka}.]

107 (return) [ {Gugaie}.]

108 (return) [ Or "Tyrrhenia."]

109 (return) [ Or "Umbrians."]

110 (return) [ {tes ano 'Asies}, i.e. the parts which are removed from the Mediterranean.]

111 (return) [ i.e. nature would not be likely to supply so many regularly ascending circles. Stein alters the text so that the sentence runs thus, "and whereas there are seven circles of all, within the last is the royal palace," etc.]

112 (return) [ i.e. "to laugh or to spit is unseemly for those in presence of the king, and this last for all, whether in the presence of the king or not." Cp. Xen. Cyrop. i. 2. 16, {aiskhron men gar eti kai nun esti Persais kai to apoptuein kai to apomuttesthai}, (quoted by Stein, who however gives a different interpretation).]

113 (return) [ {tauta de peri eouton esemnune}: the translation given is that of Mr. Woods.]

114 (return) [ {allos mentoi eouton eu ekontes}: the translation is partly due to Mr. Woods.]

115 (return) [ i.e. East of the Halys: see note on ch. 95.]

116 (return) [ See iv. 12.]

117 (return) [ Cp. ch. 72.]

118 (return) [ {ten katuperthe odon}, i.e. further away from the Euxine eastwards.]

119 (return) [ {o theos}.]

120 (return) [ {khoris men gar phoron}: many Editors substitute {phoron} for {phoron}, but {phoron} may stand if taken not with {khoris} but with {to ekastoisi epeballon}.]

121 (return) [ Cp. ch. 184, "the Assyrian history."]

122 (return) [ {uperthemenos}, a conjectural emendation of {upothemenos}, cp. ch. 108 where the MSS. give {uperthemenos}, (the Medicean with {upo} written above as a correction).]

123 (return) [ Or "expose me to risk," "stake my safety."]

124 (return) [ Or "thou wilt suffer the most evil kind of death": cp. ch. 167.]

12401 (return) [ {tas aggelias pherein}, i.e. to have the office of {aggeliephoros} (ch. 120) or {esaggeleus} (iii. 84), the chamberlain through whom communications passed.]

125 (return) [ {dialabein}. So translated by Mr. Woods.]

126 (return) [ {es tas anagkas}, "to the necessity," mentioned above.]

127 (return) [ Or "to celebrate good fortune."]

128 (return) [ {akreon kheiron te kai podon}: cp. ii. 121 (e), {apotamonta en to omo ten kheira}.]

129 (return) [ {esti te o pais kai periesti}. So translated by Mr. Woods.]

130 (return) [ {erkhe}: a few inferior MSS. have {eikhe}, which is adopted by several Editors.]