herodotus

[190] {oligon ti parateinousa apo tou potamou}.[191] {ou gar ameinon}, an Epic phrase, cp. iii. 71 and 82.[192] {eskeuasmenos}, a conjectural emendation of {eskeuasmenoisi},"with provisions well prepared."[193] {kateteine skhoinoteneas upodexas diorukhas}. Stein understands{kateteine ten stratien} (resumed afterwards by {diataxas}, "heextended his army, having first marked out channels straight bylines."[194] {proesaxanto}, from {proesago}: it may be however from{prosatto}, "they had heaped together provisions for themselvesbeforehand."[195] {ten stratien apasan}. Stein thinks that some correction isneeded.[196] {oi d' an perudontes k.t.l.}: the MSS. have {oud' anperudontes}, "they would not even have allowed them to enter thecity (from the river)," but the negative is awkward referring tothe participle alone, and the admission of the enemy to the riverbedwithin the city would have been an essential part of thescheme, not to be omitted in the description.[197] The Attic /medimnos/ (= 48 /choinikes/) was rather less than 12gallons.[198] {ton tes Demetros karpon}.[199] Stein supposes that words have fallen out before {ta gar de alladendrea}, chiefly because some mention of the palm-trees mighthave been expected here.[200] {phoinikeious}: some Editors (following Valla) have altered thisto {phoinikeiou} ("casks of palm-wine"), but it is not likely thatpalm-wine would have been thus imported, see ch. 193.[201] {kai o men eso elkei to plektron o de exo otheei}. I take it tomean that there is one steering-oar on each side, and the "inside"is the side nearer to the bank of the river. The current wouldnaturally run faster on the "outside" and consequently would tendto turn the boat round, and therefore the inside oarsman pulls hisoar constantly towards himself and the outside man pushes his oar