Numerical reckoning

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The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 secondary

Herodotus · 5th century BCE (Book V; overall composition of Histories spans roughly mid-5th century BCE)
BOOK V. THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED TERPSICHORE > i.e. "advancing insensibly further." Some take {kleptomenos} as passive, (4/5)

This passage continues editorial commentary with numerous numerical clarifications and textual uncertainties, but no new continuous Herodotean prose narrative.

has just been given, {os Phoinikes legousi}, and the Syracusans professed to be unable to discover anything of him at all. Most of the Editors omit or alter the words.] 160 [ {epimemphesthe}: some Editors have tried corrections, e.g. {ou ti memnesthe}, "do ye not remember," or {epimemnesthe}, "remember"; but cp. viii. 106, {oste se me mempsasthai ten... diken}.] 161 [ {osa umin... Minos epempse menion dakrumata}. T…