herodotus

[90] {kata tauta}: the better MSS. have {kai kata tauta}, which mightbe taken with what follows, punctuating after {ergazontai} (as inthe Medicean MS.): "they and the Egyptians alone of all nationswork flax; and so likewise they resemble one another in theirwhole manner of living."[91] {polon}, i.e. the concave sun-dial, in shape like the vault ofheaven.[92] The gnomon would be an upright staff or an obelisk forobservation of the length of the shadow.[93] i.e. Red Clod.[94] {Turion stratopedon}, i.e. "the Tyrian quarter" of the town: cp.ch. 154.[95] {ten sen}, or {tauten}, "this land."[96] {es o meteke auton}, "until at last he dismissed it"; but theconstruction is very irregular, and there is probably somecorruption of text. Stein reads {ekon} by conjecture for {es o}.[97] {delon de kata per epoiese}: a conjectural emendation of {delonde' kata gar epoiese}, which some editors retain, translatingthus, "and this is clear; for according to the manner in whichHomer described the wanderings of Alexander, etc., it is clearhow, etc."[98] Il. vi. 289. The sixth book is not ordinarily included in the{Diomedeos aristeia}.[99] Od. iv. 227. These references to the Odyssey are by some thoughtto be interpolations, because they refer only to the visit ofMenelaos to Egypt after the fall of Troy; but Herodotus is arguingthat Homer, while rejecting the legend of Helen's stay in Egyptduring the war, yet has traces of it left in this later visit toEgypt of Menelaos and Helen, as well as in the visit of Paris andHelen to Sidon.[100] Od. iv. 351.[101] {kai tode to khorion}: probably {to khorion} ought to be struckout: "this also is evident."[102] {podeonas}, being the feet of the animals whose skins they were.