he better MSS. read
{mekhanasthai} and {Skuthen}: the meaning seems doubtful, and some
Editors would omit the clause as an interpolation.]

14 [ {pros pollous deomenon}: the better MSS. read {pro pollou deomena}.
The passage has been emended in various ways, e.g. {pros pollous deoi
menontas} (Buttmann), {pros pollous menontas} (Bredow), {pro spodou
deomenon} (Stein).]

15 [ {poiesas}: some authorities have {eipas}.]

16 [ Italy means for Herodotus only the Southern part of the peninsula.]

17 [ {diekosioisi}: so the best authorities; others have
{priekosioisi}.]

18 [ {'Italioteon}, i.e. Hellenic settlers in Italy.]

19 [ {to agalmati to 'Apollonos}: {agalma} is used for anything
dedicated to a god, most commonly the sacred image.]

20 [ {katuperthe}: "above," i.e. beyond them towards the North.
Similarly when dealing with Libya the writer uses the same word of those
further from the coast towards the South; see ch. 174.]

21 [ {en autoisi toisi epesi poieon}: "even in the verses which he
composed," in which he might be expected as a poet to go somewhat beyond
the literal truth.]

22 [ Or, "Alizonians".]

23 [ {'Olbiopolitas}.]

24 [ See ch. 101, where the day's journey is reckoned at 200 stades (23
English miles).]

25 [ The meaning of {eremos} here is not waste and barren land, but land
without settled inhabitants.]

26 [ i.e. "Man-eaters".]

27 [ This is the reading of the MSS., but it is not consistent with
the distance given in ch. 101, nor with the actual facts: some Editors
therefore read "four" instead of "fourteen".]

28 [ i.e. "Cliffs".]

29 [ i.e. "Black-cloaks".]

30 [ {'Argippaioi}: it is not certain that this is the form which ought
to be read here: Latin writers make the name "Arimphaei," and in some
MSS. it is given here as {'Orgempaioi}.]

31 [ {agalmati}.]

32 [ {ta genesia}.]

33 [ Or, "violent".]

34 [ Od. iv. 85.]

35 [ {e phuonta phuein mogis}.]

36 [ {prosthekas}, "additions".]

37 [ i.e. of Apollo and Artemis.]

3701 [ Omitting {legon}.]

38 [ The word "Asia" is not contained in the MSS. and need not be
inserted in the text, but it is implied, if not expressed; see chap.
41.]

39 [ {aktai}.]

40 [ {ou legousa ei me nomo}.]

41 [ i.e. 100,000 fathoms, equivalent to 1000 stades; see ii. 6, note
10.]

42 [ {oude sumballein axie}.]

43 [ ii. 158.]

4301 [ {brota}: some MSS. have {probata} "cattle".]

44 [ {omoia parekhomene}: the construction is confus