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Editors is omitted, and by others altered to {autika}. If {auton}is to stand it must be taken with {katapetomenas}, "flying downupon them," and so it is punctuated in the Medicean MS.[101] {elkea}. There is a play upon the words {epelkein} and {elkea}which can hardly be reproduced in translation.[102] {Kassiteridas}.[103] {o kassiteros}.[104] cp. iv. 13.[105] {akinakea}.[106] This is the second of the satrapies mentioned in the list, seech. 90, named from its chief town. Oroites also possessed himselfof the first satrapy, of which the chief town was Magnesia (ch.122), and then of the third (see ch. 127).[107] The satrapy of Daskyleion is the third in the list, see ch. 90.[108] {su gar en andron logo}.[109] Or, "banqueting hall," cp. iv. 95.[110] {apestrammenon}: most of the MSS. have {epestrammenon}, "turnedtowards (the wall)."[110a] "whenever he (i.e. Zeus) rained."[111] This clause, "as Amasis the king of Egypt had foretold to him,"is omitted in some MSS. and by some Editors.[112] {oideonton eti ton pregmaton}: cp. ch. 76.[113] i.e. satrapies: see ch. 89, 90.[114] {apikomenon kai anakomisthenton}: the first perhaps referring tothe slaves and the other to the rest of the property.[115] i.e. the art of evasion.[116] {es tou khrosou ten theken}: {es} is not in the MSS., which havegenerally {tou khrusou sun theke}: one only has {tou khrusou tentheken}.