Library Herodotus Histories, Books I–II
Book 1
Part 6
218 (return) [ {tou katharou stratou}, perhaps "the effective part," without the encumbrances, cp. iv. 135.]
219 (return) [ {alexomenous}.]
220 (return) [ {sagaris nomizontes ekhein}: cp. iv. 5.]
221 (return) [ {maskhalisteras}.]
222 (return) [ {thuousi}.]
223 (return) [ {nomos}: the conjecture {noos}, "meaning," which is adopted by many Editors, may be right; but {nomos} seems to mean the "customary rule" which determines this form of sacrifice, the rule namely of "swift to the swift."]
English translation by George Rawlinson. Public domain. Digital text via Project Gutenberg.