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[57] {umin}, as if both Oracles were being addressed together.[58] i.e. Delphi.[59] {enephoreeto}, "he filled himself with it."[60] {Krestona}: Niebuhr would read {Krotona} (Croton or Cortona inEtruria), partly on the authority of Dionysius: see Stein's note.Two of the best MSS. are defective in this part of the book.[61] See ii. 51 and vi. 137.[62] {auxetai es plethos ton ethneon pollon}: "has increased to amultitude of its races, which are many." Stein and Abicht bothventure to adopt the conjecture {Pelasgon} for {pollon},"Pelasgians especially being added to them, and also many otherBarbarian nations."[62a] {pros de on emoige dokeei}: the MSS. have {emoi te}. SomeEditors read {os de on} (Stein {prosthe de on}) for {pros de on}.This whole passage is probably in some way corrupt, but it canhardly be successfully emended.[63] i.e. as it is of the Hellenic race before it parted from thePelasgian and ceased to be Barbarian.[64] {katekhomenon te kai diespasmenon . . . upo Peisistratou}.Peisistratos was in part at least the cause of the divisions.[65] {paralon}.[66] {uperakrion}.[67] {toutous}: some read by conjecture {triekosious}, "threehundred," the number which he actually had according to Polyænus,i. 21.[68] {doruphoroi}, the usual word for a body-guard.[69] {perielaunomenos de te stasi}: Stein says "harassed by attacks ofhis own party," but the passage to which he refers in ch. 61,{katallasseto ten ekhthren toisi stasiotesi}, may be referred toin the quarrel made with his party by Megacles when he joinedPeisistratos.[70] More literally, "since from ancient time the Hellenic race had