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here, and by a few only in ch. 127.111. {pro mesogaian tamnon tes odou}: cp. iv. 12 and ix. 89.112. Cp. ch. 6 and 174: but it does not appear that the Aleuadai, ofwhom Xerxes is here speaking, ever thought of resistance, andperhaps {gnosimakheontes} means, "when they submitted withoutresistance."113. Some MSS. have {Ainienes} for {Enienes}.114. {dekateusai}: there is sufficient authority for this rendering of{dekateuein}, and it seems better here than to understand the wordto refer only to a "tithing" of goods.115. {es to barathron}, the place of execution at Athens.116. "undesirable thing."117. {ouk ex isou}: i.e. it is one-sided, because the speaker has hadexperience of only one of the alternatives.118. Cp. ch. 143 (end), and viii. 62.119. {teikheon kithones}, a poetical expression, quoted perhaps fromsome oracle; and if so, {kithon} may here have the Epic sense of a"coat of mail," equivalent to {thorex} in i. 181: see ch. 61, note56.120. {to megaron}.121. The form of address changes abruptly to the singular number,referring to the Athenian people.122. {azela}, probably for {aionla}, which has been proposed as acorrection: or possibly "wretched."123. {oxus Ares}.124. i.e. Assyrian, cp. ch. 63.125. {min}, i.e. the city, to which belong the head, feet, and bodywhich have been mentioned.126. {kakois d' epikidnate thumon}: this might perhaps mean (as it istaken by several Editors), "show a courageous soul in your