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meaning is, "it has become the greatest of all rivers in thefollowing manner:--besides other rivers which flow into it, thosewhich especially make it great are as follows."[47] {pente men oi}: this perhaps requires emendation, but thecorrections proposed are hardly satisfactory, e.g. {pente megaloi}or {pente monoi}.[48] Or "Skios": called by Thucydides "Oskios" (ii. 96).[49] {eti}: most of the MSS. give {esti}, which is adopted by someEditors.[50] "Sacred Ways."[51] {Gerreon}: in some MSS. {Gerrou}, "the region called Gerros."[52] {tesserakonta}: some Editors have altered this number, butwithout authority or sufficient reason.[53] {di eremou}: see note 25 on ch. 18. The region here spoken of isthat between the Gerrians and the agricultural Scythians.[53a] {es touto elos}: i.e. the Dneiper-Liman. (The Medicean andFlorentine MSS. read {es to elos}, not {es to telos}, as hithertoreported.)[54] {eon embolon tes khores}.[55] {Metros}: i.e. the Mother of the gods, Kybele, cp. ch. 76; someless good authorities have {Demetros}.[56] {reei de}: most MSS. have {reei men gar}.[57] Or, "Apia."[58] Or, "Goitosyros."[59] The MSS. have also "Arippasa" and "Artimpasa."[60] The authorities have also "Thagimasa" and "Thamimasidas."[61] {ton arkheion}: some read by conjecture {en to arkheio}, "at theseat of government," or "in the public place."[62] {eson t' epi stadious treis}.