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troubles," but that would hardly suit with the discouraging toneof the context.127. {onax}, cp. iv. 15.128. {ouros}: the word might of course be for {oros}, "mountain," and{Kekropos ouros} would then mean the Acropolis (so it is understood byStein and others), but the combination with Kithairon makes itprobable that the reference is to the boundaries of Attica, and thisseems more in accordance with the reference to it in viii. 53.129. {Demeteros}.130. {sustas}, "having been joined" cp. viii. 142.131. {ton peri ten Ellada Ellenon ta ameino phroneonton}: the MSS.have {ton} also after {Ellenon}, which would mean "those of theHellenes in Hellas itself, who were of the better mind;" but theexpression {ton ta ameino phroneouseon peri ten Ellada} occurs inch. 172. Some Editors omit {Ellenon} as well as {ton}.132. {egkekremenoi} (from {egkerannumi}, cp. v. 124), a conjecturalemendation (by Reiske) of {egkekhremenoi}. Others have conjectured{egkekheiremenoi} or {egegermenoi}.133. {te ge alle}: many Editors adopt the conjecture {tede alle} "islike the following, which he expressed on another occasion."134. See vi. 77. This calamity had occurred about fourteen yearsbefore, and it was not in order to recover from this that theArgives wished now for a thirty years' truce; but warned by thisthey desired (they said) to guard against the consequence of asimilar disaster in fighting with the Persians, against whom,according to their own account, they were going to defendthemselves independently. So great was their fear of this that,"though fearing the oracle," they were willing to disobey it oncertain conditions.135. {probalaion}, cp. {probolous}, ch. 76.136. {es tous pleunas}.137. Cp. v. 53.138. {ethelousi}: this is omitted in most of the MSS., but containedin several of the best. Many Editors have omitted it.