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{meta Samion}, "together with the Samians," which is adopted bymany Editors. There can be little doubt however that the Skythesmentioned in vi. 23 was the father of this Cadmos, and we knowfrom Thuc. vi. 4 that the Samians were deprived of the town soonafter they had taken it, by Anaxilaos, who gave it the name ofMessene, and no doubt put Cadmos in possession of it, as the sonof the former king.156. Cp. ch. 154.157. i.e. 300,000.159. The MSS. add either {os Karkhedonioi}, or {os Karkhedonioi kaiSurekosioi}, but the testimony of the Carthaginians has just beengiven, {os Phoinikes legousi}, and the Syracusans professed to beunable to discover anything of him at all. Most of the Editorsomit or alter the words.160. {epimemphesthe}: some Editors have tried corrections, e.g. {ou timemnesthe}, "do ye not remember," or {epimemnesthe}, "remember";but cp. viii. 106, {oste se me mempsasthai ten . . . diken}.161. {osa umin . . . Minos epempse menion dakrumata}. The oracle wouldseem to have been in iambic verse.162. {parentheke}.163. {ou boulomenoi}, apparently equivalent to {me boulemenoi}.164. Cp. viii. 111.165. i.e. the six commanders of divisions {morai} in the Spartan army.166. {mia}: for this most MSS. have {ama}. Perhaps the true reading is{ama mia}.167. {amaxitos moune}, cp. ch. 200.168. {Khutrous}.169. {ton epibateon autes}.170. {emeroskopous}: perhaps simply "scouts," cp. ch. 219, by which itwould seem that they were at their posts by night also, thoughnaturally they would not see much except by day.