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chamberlain through whom communications passed.[125] {dialabein}. So translated by Mr. Woods.[126] {es tas anagkas}, "to the necessity," mentioned above.[127] Or "to celebrate good fortune."[128] {akreon kheiron te kai podon}: cp. ii. 121 (e), {apotamonta ento omo ten kheira}.[129] {esti te o pais kai periesti}. So translated by Mr. Woods.[130] {erkhe}: a few inferior MSS. have {eikhe}, which is adopted byseveral Editors.[131] {para smikra . . . kekhoreke}, "have come out equal to trifles."[132] {kuon}: cp. ch. 110.[133] {su nun}, answering to {se gar theoi eporeousi}: the MSS. andsome Editors read {su nun}.[134] i.e. of the race of Perses: see vii. 61.[135] "how his change from a throne to slavery was as compared withthat feast, etc.," i.e. what did he think of it as a retribution.[136] See ch. 106. The actual duration of the Median supremacy wouldbe therefore a hundred years.[136a] This is by some altered to "Alilat," by comparison of iii. 8.[137] {stemmasi}, i.e. the chaplets wound round with wool which wereworn at Hellenic sacrifices.[138] {oulesi}.[138a] Cp. vii. 61.[139] {sitoisi}: perhaps "plain dishes."[140] {proskuneei}, i.e. kisses his feet or the ground.[141] {ton legomenon}, a correction of {to legomeno}. (The MediceanMS. has {toi legomenoi} like the rest, not {toi legomeno}, as