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possession."[30] {mede}: Abicht reads {meden} by conjecture.[31] {alla}, under the influence of the preceding negative.[32] {prosson} refers grammatically only to {autos}, and marks thereference as being chiefly to himself throughout the sentence.[33] {prorrizos}, "by the roots."[34] {toi tesi pathesi}: the MSS. mostly have {toi autaisi} or{toiautaisi}.[35] See i. 51.[36] {es Aigupton epetheke}, "delivered it (to a messenger to convey)to Egypt."[37] The island of Carpathos, the modern /Scarpanto/.[38] {to thulako periergasthai}: which is susceptible of a variety ofmeanings. In a similar story told of the Chians the Spartans aremade to say that it would have been enough to show the empty bagwithout saying anything. (Sext. Empir. ii. 23.) Probably themeaning here is that if they were going to say so much, they neednot have shown the bag, for the words were enough without thesight of the bag: or it may be only that the /words/ {o thulakos}were unnecessary in the sentence {o thulakos alphiton deitai}.[39] See i. 70.[40] {genee}. To save the chronology some insert {trite} before{genee}, but this will be useless unless the clause {kata de tonauton khronon tou kreteros te arpage} be omitted, as it is alsoproposed to do. Periander is thought to have died about 585 B.C.;but see v. 95.[41] The MSS. add {eontes eoutoisi}, and apparently something has beenlost. Stein and others follow Valckenär in adding {suggenees},"are ever at variance with one another in spite of their kinship."[42] {noo labon}: the MSS. have {now labon kai touto}.[43] {iren zemien}.