and Cheirisophus. _Kuehner_.]

[Footnote 182: [Greek: Ten phaneran ekbasin].] Xenophon calls the
passage to the top of the mountain an [Greek: ekbasis], or egress, with
reference to the Greeks, to whom it was a way of escape from a
disagreeable position. _Kuehner_ ad c. 5. 20. The same words are repeated
by Xenophon in the next sect.]

[Footnote 183: [Greek: Holoitrochous].] A word borrowed from Homer,
signifying properly _a round stone fit for rolling_, or _a stone that
has been made round by rolling_, as a pebble in the sea. It was
originally an adjective, with [Greek: petros] understood. Most critics
suppose it to be from [Greek: holos] and [Greek: trecho], _totus teres
atque rotundus_. Liddell and Scott derive it from [Greek: eilo],
_volvo_. See Theocr. xxii. 49.]

[Footnote 184: [Greek: Diesphendononto].] "Shivered in pieces, and flew
about as if hurled by a sling."]

[Footnote 185: [Greek: Orthiois tois lochois].] Each [Greek: lochos] or
company marching in file or column, so that the depth of the [Greek:
lochos] was equal to the number of soldiers of which it consisted.
_Sturz_. This is the interpretation adopted by Kuehner. Yet it Would be
hard to prove that [Greek: orthios lochos] always meant _single file_;
the term seems to have included any form of a company in which the
number of men in depth exceeded the number in front.]

[Footnote 186: [Greek: Ta hopla ekeinto].] See sect. 16. The heavy-armed
men had halted on the level piece of ground, and their arms were lying
by them. See Kuehner ad i. 5. 14.]

[Footnote 187: A small town of Arcadia, to the north-west of Clitor.]

[Footnote 188: [Greek: En lakkois koniatois].] The Athenians and other
Greeks used to make large excavations under ground, some round, some
square, and, covering them over with plaster, laid up their wine and oil
in them; they called them [Greek: lakkoi]. Schol. ad Aristoph. Eccl.,
cited by Hutchinson. Spelman translates [Greek: lakkoi koniatoi],
"plastered cisterns," a term which Ainsworth adopts. "The plastered
cisterns noticed by Xenophon," says he, "are also met with throughout
Kurdistan, Armenia, and Syria. They are especially numerous around some
of the ancient villages of the early Christians of those countries, as
more especially between Semeisat and Bireh-jik, and have frequently been
a subject of discussion as to their former uses. This notice of Xenophon
serves to clear up many doubts upon the subject, although, since the