79.]

215 [ See ch. 83.]

216 [ {ek te tosou de katededekto eousa ouden khreste Melieusi}, i.e. {e
esbole}.]

217 [ {Melampugon}.]

218 [ Lit. "had set out to go at first."]

219 [ Lit. "and afterwards deserters were they who reported."]

220 [ {diakrithentes}.]

221 [ {taute kai mallon te gnome pleistos eimi}.]

222 [ i.e. the Persian.]

223 [ {prin tond eteron dia panta dasetai}: i.e. either the city or the
king.]

224 [ {mounon Spartieteon}: some Editors (following Plutarch) read
{mounon Spartieteon}, "lay up for the Spartans glory above all other
nations."]

225 [ {to men gar eruma tou teikheos ephulasseto, oi de k.t.l.}]

226 [ i.e. the Lacedemonians.]

227 [ {izonto epi ton kolonon}.]

228 [ Some Editors insert {tous} after {e}, "before those who were sent
away by Leonidas had departed."]

229 [ {remasi}.]

230 [ {leipopsukheonta}, a word which refers properly to bodily
weakness. It has been proposed to read {philopsukheonta}, "loving his
life," cp. vi. 29.]

231 [ {algesanta}: some good MSS. have {alogesanta}, which is adopted by
Stein, "had in his ill-reckoning returned alone."]

232 [ {tes autes ekhomenou prophasios}.]

233 [ {atimien}.]

234 [ {o tresas}.]

235 [ Thuc. ii. 2 ff.]

236 [ {tas diexodous ton bouleumaton}, cp. iii. 156.]

237 [ {ton vees k.t.l.}: some Editors insert {ek} before {ton}, "by
which four hundred ships have suffered shipwreck."]

238 [ {ta seoutou de tithemenos eu gnomen ekho}: for {ekho} some
inferior MSS. have {ekhe}, which is adopted by several Editors, "Rather
set thy affairs in good order and determine not to consider," etc.]

239 [ {to pareon troma}, i.e. their defeat.]

240 [ {kai esti dusmenes te sige}. Some commentators understand {te
sige} to mean "secretly," like {sige}, viii. 74.]

241 [ See ch. 220.]

242 [ Many Editors pronounce the last chapter to be an interpolation,
but perhaps with hardly sufficient reason.]

BOOK VIII. THE EIGHTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED URANIA

1. Those of the Hellenes who had been appointed to serve in the fleet
were these:--the Athenians furnished a hundred and twenty-seven ships,
and the Plataians moved by valour and zeal for the service, although
they had had no practice in seamanship, yet joined with the Athenians in
manning their ships. The Corinthians furnished forty ships, the
Megarians twenty; the Chalkidians manned twenty ships with which the
Athenians furnished them; 1 the Eginetans fu