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ut Charaxos himself, who doubtless would be included in the samecondemnation.[119] {propulaia}.[120] "innumerable sights of buildings."[121] {tassomenon}, "posted," like an army; but the text is probablyunsound: so also in the next line, where the better MSS. have {menBoubasti poli}, others {e en Boubasti polis}. Stein reads {e enBoubasti poli}, "the earth at the city of Bubastis." Perhaps {e enBoubasti polis} might mean the town as opposed to the temple, asMr. Woods suggests.[122] Cp. ch. 161, {egeneto apo prophasios, ton k.t.l.} Perhapshowever {prophasin} is here from {prophaino} (cp. Soph. Trach.662), and it means merely "that the gods were foreshowing him thisin order that," etc. So Stein.[123] i.e. for their customary gift or tribute to him as king.[124] The chronology is inconsistent, and some propose, withoutauthority, to read "three hundred years."[125] {tas arouras}, cp. ch. 168, where the {aroura} is defined as ahundred Egyptian units square, about three-quarters of an acre.[126] {es to megaron}.[127] Not on two single occasions, but for two separate periods oftime it was stated that the sun had risen in the West and set inthe East; i.e. from East to West, then from West to East, thenagain from East to West, and finally back to East again. Thisseems to be the meaning attached by Herodotus to something whichhe was told about astronomical cycles.[128] {ouk eontas}: this is the reading of all the best MSS., and alsofits in best with the argument, which was that in Egypt gods werequite distinct from men. Most Editors however read {oikeontas} onthe authority of a few MSS., "dwelling with men." (The reading ofthe Medicean MS. is {ouk eontas}, not {oukeontas} as stated byStein.)[129] i.e. that the Hellenes borrowed these divinities from Egypt, seech. 43 ff. This refers to all the three gods above mentioned andnot (as Stein contended) to Pan and Dionysos only.