being inferior in speed to
the females, flag in their course and are dragged along, first one and
then the other."]

9701 [ See ii. 75.]

98 [ {metri}: the MSS. have {metre}, "womb," but for this Herod. seems
to use the plural.]

99 [ {metera}: most MSS. have {metran}.]

100 [ Most of the MSS. have {auton} before {ta melea}, which by some
Editors is omitted, and by others altered to {autika}. If {auton} is to
stand it must be taken with {katapetomenas}, "flying down upon them,"
and so it is punctuated in the Medicean MS.]

101 [ {elkea}. There is a play upon the words {epelkein} and {elkea}
which can hardly be reproduced in translation.]

102 [ {Kassiteridas}.]

103 [ {o kassiteros}.]

104 [ cp. iv. 13.]

105 [ {akinakea}.]

106 [ This is the second of the satrapies mentioned in the list, see
ch. 90, named from its chief town. Oroites also possessed himself of the
first satrapy, of which the chief town was Magnesia (ch. 122), and then
of the third (see ch. 127).]

107 [ The satrapy of Daskyleion is the third in the list, see ch. 90.]

108 [ {su gar en andron logo}.]

109 [ Or, "banqueting hall," cp. iv. 95.]

110 [ {apestrammenon}: most of the MSS. have {epestrammenon}, "turned
towards (the wall)."]

11001 [ "whenever he (i.e. Zeus) rained."]

111 [ This clause, "as Amasis the king of Egypt had foretold to him," is
omitted in some MSS. and by some Editors.]

112 [ {oideonton eti ton pregmaton}: cp. ch. 76.]

113 [ i.e. satrapies: see ch. 89, 90.]

114 [ {apikomenon kai anakomisthenton}: the first perhaps referring to
the slaves and the other to the rest of the property.]

115 [ i.e. the art of evasion.]

116 [ {es tou khrosou ten theken}: {es} is not in the MSS., which
have generally {tou khrusou sun theke}: one only has {tou khrusou ten
theken}.]

117 [ {stateras}: i.e. the {stater Dareikos} "Daric," worth about L1;
cp. note on vii. 28.]

118 [ {ekaton mneon}, "a hundred minae," of which sixty go to the
talent.]

119 [ This passage, from "for this event happened" to the end of the
chapter, is suspected as an interpolation by some Editors, on internal
grounds.]

120 [ Tarentum. Italy means for Herodotus the southern part of the
peninsula only.]

121 [ {restones}: so one inferior MS., probably by conjectural
emendation: the rest have {krestones}. The Ionic form however of
{rastone} would be {reistone}. Some would read {khrestones}, a word
which is not found, but might mean the same