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20. {pempto de etei anomeno}.21. {ton Ionion}.22. {kai oud ei eperai pros tautesi prosgenomenai}: some MSS. read{oud eterai pros tautesi genomenai}, which is adopted (withvariations) by some Editors. The meaning would be "not all these,nor others which happened in addition to these, were equal to thisone."23. {ama strateuomenoisi}: {ama} is omitted in some MSS.24. {stadion}, and so throughout.25. {entos Sanes}: some MSS. read {ektos Sanes}, which is adopted byStein, who translates "beyond Sane, but on this side of MountAthos": this however will not suit the case of all the townsmentioned, e.g. Acrothoon, and {ton Athen} just below clearlymeans the whole peninsula.26. {leukolinou}.27. {ton de on pleiston}: if this reading is right, {siton} must beunderstood, and some MSS. read {allon} for {alla} in the sentenceabove. Stein in his latest edition reads {siton} instead of{pleiston}.28. Lit. "the name of which happens to be Catarractes."29. i.e. 4,000,000.30. The {stater dareikos} was of nearly pure gold (cp. iv. 166),weighing about 124 grains.30a. {stele}, i.e. a square block of stone.31. {athanato andri}, taken by some to mean one of the body of"Immortals."32. {akte pakhea}: some inferior MSS. read {akte trakhea}, and hencesome Editors have {akte trekhea}, "a rugged foreland."33. {dolero}: some Editors read {tholero}, "turbid," by conjecture.34. The meaning is much disputed. I understand Herodotus to state thatthough the vessels lay of course in the direction of the stream