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[78] {peplastai}: some authorities give {pepaistai}, "has beeninvented as a jest."[79] {es kheiras agesthai}.[79a] {o theos}.[80] {diepresteuse}: this or {epresteuse} is the reading of most ofthe MSS. The meaning is uncertain, since the word does not occurelsewhere. Stein suggests that it may mean "scoffed (at theScythians)." Various conjectures have been tried, e.g.{diedresteuse}, {diedrepeteuse}, etc.[81] {os Skuthas einai}: cp. ii. 8. Some (e.g. Dindorf and Bähr)translate "considering that they are Scythians," i.e. for a nationso famous and so widely extended.[82] i.e. about 5300 gallons.[83] {epi to iro}: the MSS. mostly have {epi iro}, and Stein adoptsthe conjecture {epi rio}, "on a projecting point." The templewould be that of {Zeus ourios} mentioned in ch. 87. (In theMedicean MS. the omitted {i} is inserted above the line /before/the {r}, not directly over it, as represented by Stein, and theaccent is not omitted.)[84] {stadioi}, and so throughout.[85] i.e. 1,110,000.[86] i.e. 330,000.[86a] {stelas}, i.e. "square blocks"; so also in ch. 91.[87] i.e. 700,000.[87a] {os emoi dokeei sumballomeno}, "putting the evidence together".[88] {pasi deka}: probably a loose expression like {ta panta muria},iii. 74.[89] {psoren}, "mange."[90] Or (less probably) "Skyrmiadai."[91] {Salmoxin}: some inferior MSS. have {Zalmoxin}, or {Zamolxin},