Library Herodotus Histories, Books I–II

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.