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[15] {pentakosias mneas}.[16] {aneklaion}: perhaps {anteklaion}, which has most MS. authority,may be right, "answer their lamentations."[17] See ch. 31.[18] {egeomenon}: some Editors adopt the conjecture {agomenon}, "wasbeing led."[19] {sphi}: so in the MSS.: some editions (following the Aldine) have{oi}.[20] {to te}: a correction for {tode}: some Editors read {tode, to},"by this, namely by the case of," etc.[21] "gypsum."[22] {epi}, lit. "after."[23] {leukon tetragonon}: so the MSS. Some Editors, in order to bringthe statement of Herodotus into agreement with the fact, read{leukon ti trigonon}, "a kind of white triangle": so Stein.[24] {epi}: this is altered unnecessarily by most recent Editors to{upo}, on the authority of Eusebius and Pliny, who say that themark was under the tongue.[25] {ekeino}: some understand this to refer to Cambyses, "that therewas no one now who would come to the assistance of Cambyses, if hewere in trouble," an office which would properly have belonged toSmerdis, cp. ch. 65: but the other reference seems more natural.[26] Epilepsy or something similar.[26a] Cp. note on i. 114.[27] {pros ton patera [telesai] Kuron}: the word {telesai} seems to becorrupt. Stein suggests {eikasai}, "as compared with." SomeEditors omit the word.[28] {nomon panton basilea pheras einai}: but {nomos} in this fragmentof Pindar is rather the natural law by which the strong prevailover the weak.[29] {iakhon}: Stein reads by conjecture {skhon}, "having obtained