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42. i.e. not downwards.43. {tina autou sukhnon omilon}.44. {to Priamou Pergamon}.45. {en Abudo mese}: some inferior authorities (followed by mostEditors) omit {mese}: but the district seems to be spoken of, asjust above.46. {proexedre lothou leukou}: some kind of portico or /loggia/ seemsto be meant.47. {daimonie andoon}.48. {ena auton}.49. {to proso aiei kleptomenos}: "stealing thy advance continually,"i.e. "advancing insensibly further." Some take {kleptomenos} aspassive, "insensibly lured on further."50. {neoteron ti poiesein}.51. Or, according to some MSS., "the Persian land."52. Lit. "the name of which happens to be Agora."53. i.e. 1,700,000.54. {sunnaxantes}: a conjectural emendation very generally adopted of{sunaxantes} or {sunapsantes}.55. {apageas}, i.e. not stiffly standing up; the opposite to{pepeguias} (ch. 64).56. {lepidos siderees opsin ikhthueideos}: many Editors suppose thatsome words have dropped out. The {kithon} spoken of may have beena coat of armour, but elsewhere the body armour {thorex} isclearly distinguished from the {kithon}, see ix. 22.57. {gerra}: cp. ix. 61 and 102.58. Cp. i. 7.59. {mitrephoroi esan}: the {mitre} was perhaps a kind of turban.