on}.]

95 [ {me oentes arthmioi}. This is generally taken to mean, "unless they
were of one mind together"; but that would very much weaken the force of
the remark, and {arthmios} elsewhere is the opposite of {polemios}, cp.
vi. 83 and ix. 9, 37: Xerxes professes enmity only against those who had
refused to give the tokens of submission.]

96 [ {men mounoisi}: these words are omitted in some good MSS., and
{mounoisi} has perhaps been introduced from the preceding sentence. The
thing referred to in {touto} is the power of fighting in single combat
with many at once, which Demaratos is supposed to have claimed for the
whole community of the Spartans.]

97 [ {stergein malista}.]

98 [ {oudamoi ko}.]

99 [ Or, "Strauos."]

100 [ Or, "Compsatos."]

101 [ {tas epeirotidas polis}: it is not clear why these are thus
distinguished. Stein suggests {Thasion tas epeirotidas polis}, cp.
ch. [Footnote 118; and if that be the true reading {ion} is probably a
remnant of {Thasion} after {khoras}.]

102 [ Or, "Pistiros."]

103 [ {oi propheteountes}, i.e. those who interpret the utterances of
the Oracle, cp. viii. 36.]

104 [ {promantis}.]

105 [ {kai ouden poikiloteron}, an expression of which the meaning is
not quite clear; perhaps "and the oracles are not at all more obscure,"
cp. Eur. Phoen. 470 and Hel. 711 (quoted by Baehr).]

106 [ "Ennea Hodoi."]

107 [ Cp. iii. 84.]

108 [ The "royal cubit" is about 20 inches; the {daktulos}, "finger's
breadth," is rather less than 3/4 inch.]

109 [ Or, "Cape Canastraion."]

110 [ Or "Echeidoros": so it is usually called, but not by any MS. here,
and by a few only in ch. 127.]

111 [ {pro mesogaian tamnon tes odou}: cp. iv. 12 and ix. 89.]

112 [ Cp. ch. 6 and 174: but it does not appear that the Aleuadai, of
whom Xerxes is here speaking, ever thought of resistance, and perhaps
{gnosimakheontes} means, "when they submitted without resistance."]

113 [ Some MSS. have {Ainienes} for {Enienes}.]

114 [ {dekateusai}: there is sufficient authority for this rendering of
{dekateuein}, and it seems better here than to understand the word to
refer only to a "tithing" of goods.]

115 [ {es to barathron}, the place of execution at Athens.]

116 [ "undesirable thing."]

117 [ {ouk ex isou}: i.e. it is one-sided, because the speaker has had
experience of only one of the alternatives.]

118 [ Cp. ch. 143 (end), and viii. 62.]

119 [ {teikheon kithones}, a poetical expression,