herodotus

[19] Tarentum.[20] {en toisi edolioisi}: properly "benches," but probably here theraised deck at the stern.[21] {ou mega}: many of the MSS. have {mega}.[22] {stadioi}: furlongs of about 606 English feet.[23] {to epilogo}.[24] This list of nations is by some suspected as an interpolation;see Stein's note on the passage.[25] {sophistai}: cp. ii. 49, and iv. 95.[26] {etheto}.[27] {olbiotaton}.[28] {stadious}.[29] {romen}: many of the MSS. have {gnomen}, "good disposition."[30] i.e. their mother: but some understand it to mean the goddess.[31] {en telei touto eskhonto}.[32] {anolbioi}.[33] {eutukhees}.[34] {aperos}: the MSS. have {apeiros}.[35] {aikhme sideree blethenta}.[36] "in the house of Crœsus."[37] {'Epistion}.[38] {'Etaireion}.[39] {suggrapsamenous}, i.e. have it written down by the {propsetes}(see vii. 111 and viii. 37), who interpreted and put into regularverse the inspired utterances of the prophetess {promantis}.