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[18] Livy, 27, 44.
[19] There is nothing to show positively that a Rhodian is the speaker: but Livy mentions envoys from Rhodes and Ptolemy this year. For the special attempts of the Rhodians to bring about a peace between Philip and the Aetolians, see 5, 24, 100.
[20] The “Tarentines” were horsemen armed with light skirmishing javelins. See 4, 77; 16, 18; and cp. Arrian, Tact. 4, § 5; 18, § 2. Livy, 35, 28; 37, 40.
[21] See on 27, 4.
[22] The text is certainly corrupt here, and it is not clear what the general sense of the passage is beyond this,—that Philopoemen calculated on defeating the enemy, as he did, while struggling through the dyke: or on their exposing themselves to attack if they retreated from the dyke without crossing it.
[23] Or, according to another reading “five stades.” Livy, 28, 14, says quingentos passus.
[24] The text is imperfect.
[25] Handing it over to L. Lentulus and L. Manlius Acidinus, Livy, 28, 38.
[26] That is the Caucasus Indicus or Paropamisus: mod. Hindú Kúsh.
[27] Cp. a similar custom of the Lycians, Herod. 1, 173.
[28] He may have been referring to pre-homeric times, cp. Herod. 6, 137, οὐ γὰρ εἶναι τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον σφίσι κω οὐδὲ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι Ἕλλησι οἰκέτας.
[29] The text is very imperfect here.
[30] For this title see on 22, 19. It is found in inscriptions in Thasos, Crete, and Cibyra. C.I.G. 2163, c; 2583; 4380, b.
[31] Both Curtius and Arrian seem to have found in their authorities that Darius crossed the Pinarus. Curt. 3, 8; Arrian, 2, 8.
[32] Reckoning the stade at 600 feet (Greek).
[33] See note to previous chapter.
[34] The Cilician gates.
[35] That is, sixteen or thirty-two deep.
[36] The text here is in hopeless confusion.
[37] Homer, who is generally spoken of as “the poet.” We may remember Horace (Ep. 1, 19, 6) Laudibus arguitur vini vinosus Homerus.
[38] See 3, 37. The point seems to be that the remark was too commonplace to put into the mouth of a hero.
[39] The text is again hopeless.
[40] The text is uncertain, and I am not at all sure of the meaning of ἐπ’ ὀνόματος, cp. 25 k, 27. These public harangues of doctors to attract patients are noticed in Xenophon, Memorab. 4, 2, 5.
[41] Tyrant of Salamis in Cyprus, B.C. 404-374. See Isocrates, Orat. x.
[42] For this proverb see Plutarch, Nicias, ch. 9, ἡδέως μεμνημένοι τοῦ εἰπόντος ὅτι τοὺς ἐν εἰρήνῃ καθεύδοντας οὐ σάλπιγγες ἀλλ’ ἀλεκτρυόνες ἀφυπνίζουσι.
[43] Ib. ch. 25.
[44] Homer, Il. 5, 890.
[45] Homer, Il. 9, 63.
[46] Euripides, fr.
[47] Battle of the Crimesus. See Plutarch, Timol. ch. 27.
[48] He refers to the habit of Eastern nations thrusting their hands into long sleeves in the presence of their rulers. See Xenophon, Hellen. 2, 1, 8.
[49] Homer, Odyss. 1, 1-4; 8, 183.
[50] Republic, v. 473 C. vi. 499 B.
[51] The Rhodians had proclaimed war against the Cretan pirates. Philip had secretly commissioned one of his agents, the Aetolian Dicaearchus, to aid the Cretans. Diodor. fr. xxviii.
[52] Heracleides having gained credence at Rhodes by pretending to betray Philip’s intrigue with the Cretans, waited for an opportunity, and, setting fire to their arsenal, escaped in a boat. Polyaen. 5, 17, 2.
[53] The text of these last sentences is so corrupt that it is impossible to be sure of having rightly represented the meaning of Polybius.
[54] These raids on the territory of Megalopolis, however, did not lead to open war till B.C. 202. See 16, 16.
[55] Caepio was commanding in Bruttium, Servilius in Etruria and Liguria. Livy, 30, 1.
[56] Sophanisba, the daughter of Hasdrubal son of Gesco. Livy, 29, 23; 30, 12, 15.
[57] Some words are lost from the text.