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(themselves) to them more."[63] i.e. "let him be killed on the spot."[64] {ta panta muria}, "ten thousand of every possible thing," (or,"of all the usual gifts"; cp. ch. 84 {ten pasan doreen}).[65] {dethen}.[66] {oideonton ton pregmaton}: "while things were swelling," cp. ch.127: perhaps here, "before things came to a head."[66a] {andreona}, as in ch. 121.[67] {ana te edramon palin}, i.e. they ran back into the room out ofwhich they had come to see what was the matter; with thiscommunicated a bedchamber which had its light only by the opendoor of communication.[67a] {magophonia}.[68] Or, "after it had lasted more than five days," taking {thorubos}as the subject of {egeneto}. The reason for mentioning theparticular number five seems to be contained in the passage quotedby Stein from Sextus Empiricus, {enteuphen kai oi Personkharientes nomon ekhousi, basileos par' autois teleutesantos pentetas ephexes emeras anomian agein}.[69] See vi. 43.[70] {isonomie}, "equal distribution," i.e. of civil rights.[71] {ouden oikeion}: the MSS. have {ouden oud' oikeion}, which mightbe translated "anything of its own either."[72] {to lego}: the MSS. have {ton lego}, "each of the things /aboutwhich I speak/ being best in its own kind." The reading {to logo},which certainly gives a more satisfactory meaning, is found inStobæus, who quotes the passage.[73] {kakoteta}, as opposed to the {arete} practised by the members ofan aristocracy.[74] {okto kaiebdomekonta mneas}: the MSS. have {ebdomekonta mneas}only, and this reading seems to have existed as early as thesecond century of our era: nevertheless the correction is