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81. {o Spartietes}: it has been proposed to read {Spartietai}, for itcan hardly be supposed that the other two were not Spartans also.82. One MS. at least calls him Aeimenstos, cp. ch. 64. Thucydides(iii. 52) mentions Aeimnestos as the name of a Plataian citizen,the father of Lacon. Stein observes that in any case this cannotbe that Arimnestos who is mentioned by Plutarch as commander ofthe Plataian contingent.83. {eoutou axion prophumeumenou apodexasthai}.84. {atelein te kai proedrin}.85. vi. 92.86. {andra pentaethlon}.87. {oute daimonon oute theon}: heroes and in general divinities ofthe second order are included under the term {daimonon}.88. Most of the commentators (and following them the historians)understand the imperfect {ediokon} to express the mere purpose toattempt, and suppose that this purpose was actually hindered bythe Lacedemonians. but for a mere half-formed purpose theexpression {mekhri Thessalies} seems to definite, and Diodorusstates that Artabazos was pursued. I think therefore that Krügeris right in understanding {eon} of an attempt to dissuade whichwas not successful. The alternative version would be "they werefor pursuing them as far as Thessaly, but the Lacedemoniansprevented them from pursuing fugitives."89. {akinakas}.90. Whether three tithes were taken or only one is left uncertain.91. "furniture furnished" is hardly tolerable; perhaps Herodotus wrote{skenen} for {kataskeuen} here.92. The connexion here is not satisfactory, and the chapter is in parta continuation of chapter 81. It is possible that ch. 82 may be alater addition by the author, thrown in without much regard to thecontext.93. "Whereas however the body of Mardonios had disappeared on the dayafter the battle (taken by whom I am not able to say . . . .), itis reported with some show of reason that Dionysophanes, an