herodotus

they were of one mind together"; but that would very much weakenthe force of the remark, and {arthmios} elsewhere is the oppositeof {polemios}, cp. vi. 83 and ix. 9, 37. Xerxes professes enmityonly against those who had refused to give the tokens ofsubmission.96. {men mounoisi}: these words are omitted in some good MSS., and{mounoisi} has perhaps been introduced from the precedingsentence. The thing referred to in {touto} is the power offighting in single combat with many at once, which Demaratos issupposed to have claimed for the whole community of the Spartans.97. {stergein malista}.98. {oudamoi ko}.99. Or, "Strauos."100. Or, "Compsatos."101. {tas epeirotidas polis}: it is not clear why these are thusdistinguished. Stein suggests {Thasion tas epeirotidas polis}, cp.ch. 118; and if that be the true reading {ion} is probably aremnant of {Thasion} after {khoras}.102. Or, "Pistiros."103. {oi propheteountes}, i.e. those who interpret the utterances ofthe Oracle, cp. viii. 36.104. {promantis}.105. {kai ouden poikiloteron}, an expression of which the meaning isnot quite clear; perhaps "and the oracles are not at all moreobscure," cp. Eur. Phœn. 470 and Hel. 711 (quoted by Bähr).106. "Ennea Hodoi."107. Cp. iii. 84.108. The "royal cubit" is about 20 inches; the {daktulos}, "finger'sbreadth," is rather less than ¾ inch.109. Or, "Cape Canastraion."110. Or "Echeidoros": so it is usually called, but not by any MS.