Chapter XXI: Book IV: The Fourth Book of the Histories, Called Melpomene (5)

138 [ Or, "Axos".]

139 [ i.e. Aristoteles, Pind. Pyth. v. 87.]

140 [ {metaxu apolipon}.]

141 [ Or, "it happened both to himself and to the other men of Thera according to their former evil fortune"; but this would presuppose the truth of the story told in ch. 151, and {paligkotos} may mean simply "adverse" or "hostile".]

142 [ {eontes tosoutoi osoi k.t.l.} They could hardly have failed to increase in number, but no new settlers had been added.]

143 [ {usteron elthe gas anadaiomenes}, "too late for the division of land".]

144 [ Or, "Thestis".]

145 [ The MSS. give also "Aliarchos" and "Learchos".]

146 [ {mathon ekasta}.]

147 [ {ton terioikon}: i.e. conquered Libyans.]

148 [ {nesioteon panton}: i.e. the natives of the Cyclades, cp. vi. 99.]

149 [ {amphirruton ten Kurenen einai}: some Editors read by conjecture {ten amphirruton Kurenen einai} (or {Kurenen ten amph, einai}), "that Kyrene was the place flowed round by water".]

150 [ {pselion}.]

151 [ Or, "Giligammai".]

152 [ i.e. the plant so called, figured on the coins of Kyrene and Barca.]

153 [ Or, "Asbytai".]

154 [ i.e. further from the coast, so {katuperthe}, ch. 174 etc., cp. ch. 16.]

155 [ Or "Cabales".]

156 [ See i. 216.]

157 [ Distinct from the people of the same name mentioned in ch. 183: those here mentioned are called "Gamphasantes" by Pliny.]

158 [ {glukuteta}, "sweetness".]

159 [ {allen te ekatomben kai de kai}.]

160 [ {epithespisanta to tripodi}, which can hardly mean "prophesied sitting upon the tripod".]

161 [ Lit. "the men come together regularly to one place within three months," which seems to mean that meetings are held every three months, before one of which the child is brought.]

162 [ See ii. 42.]

163 [ i.e. in the middle of the morning.]

164 [ {tripsin}: the "feel" to the touch: hence it might mean either hardness or softness according to the context.]

165 [ {troglodutas}: "Troglodytes".]

166 [ {uperballonti}: "when his heat is greatest".]

167 [ {ede}.]

168 [ Or "red".]

169 [ {domon}: Reiske reads {omon} by conjecture, "over his shoulder".]

170 [ Or (according to some MSS.), "practise this much and do it well".]

171 [ {akatapseusta}. Several Editors have adopted the conjecture {katapseusta}, "other fabulous beasts".]

172 [ {orues}: perhaps for {oruges} from {orux}, a kind of antelope.]

173 [ {diktues}: the meaning is uncertain.]

174 [ {ekhinees}, "urchins".]

175 [ Or "Zabykes".]

176 [ Or "Zygantes".]

177 [ {eie d' an pan}: cp. v. 9. Some translate, "and this might well be so".]

178 [ {oud' areten einai tis e Libue spoudaie}.]

179 [ i.e. corn; cp. i. 193.]

180 [ {bounous}.]

181 [ See ch. 167.]

182 [ {meden allo neokhmoun kata Barkaious}: cp. v. 19.]

183 [ {paralabontes}.]

184 [ {epiphthonoi}.]