herodotus

y most Editors, make it "Sosicles."79. {isokratias}.80. Lit. "gave and took (in marriage) from one another."81. {Eetion, outis se tiei polutiton eonta}: the play upon {Eetion}and {tio} can hardly be rendered. The "rolling rock" in the nextline is an allusion to Petra, the name of the deme.82. {aietos en petresi kuei}, with a play upon the names {Eetion}({Aeton}) and {Petre} again.83. {ophruoenta}, "situated on a brow or edge," the regulardescriptive epithet of Corinth.84. {kupselen}: cp. Aristoph. Pax, 631.85. {amphidexion}: commonly translated "ambiguous," but in fact theoracle is of the clearest, so much so that Abicht cuts the knot byinserting {ouk}. Stein explains it to mean "doubly favourable,"{amphoterothen dexion}. I understand it to mean "two-edged" (cp.{amphekes}), in the sense that while promising success to Kypselosand his sons, it prophesies also the deposition of the family inthe generation after, and so acts (or cuts) both ways.86. {anapodizon}, "calling him back over the same ground again."87. Evidently the war must be dated earlier than the time ofPeisistratos.87a. Or (according to some MSS.), "another of the citizens, namedHermophantos."88. {tes sulloges oste tauta sunuphanthenai}, "the assembling togetherso that these things were woven."89. {kai allos lematos pleos}.90. {plospheresteron}, or perhaps {plopheresteron}, "to be preferred";so one MS.: {plospheres} ordinarily means "like."91. {drepano}, cp. vii. 93.92. {delade}, ironical.