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individual selection.84. {ouden meros os eipein}.85. {anemon Strumonien}, "the wind called Strymonias."86. {ta akrothinia}, i.e. the tithe.87. i.e. the corner of the entrance-hall, {epi tou proneiou tesgonies}, i. 51.88. {dienemon}: some understand this to mean "distributed the votingtablets," and some MSS. read {dienemonto}, "distributed amongthemselves," which is adopted by many Editors.89. {sophotatos}.90. See i. 67.91. A small island near Attica, taken here as the type ofinsignificance. To suppose that Timodemos was connected with it isquite unnecessary. The story in Plutarch about the Seriphian isdifferent.92. i.e. 60,000.93. {katesphaxe}, "cut their throats."94. {para tas gluphidas}: some Editors read {peri tas gluphidas} onthe authority of Æneas Tacticus. The {gluphides} are probablynotches which give a hold for the fingers as they draw back thestring.95. {kataplexai}, "strike down" by the charge.96. The way was shut against them ordinarily by the town of Potidaia,which occupied the isthmus.97. i.e. most of those who before served as {epibatai} (vii. 96)continued to serve still. The sentence is usually translated, "ofthose who served as fighting-men in them the greater number werePersians or Medes," and this may be right.98. The MSS. have "Charilos" or "Charillos."99. Some Editors read "Eurypon," which is the form found elsewhere.