[91] Minæ: the Mina was about one pound by weight of silver, or $20. Twenty minæ would be therefore $400.
[92] Pipe: a fife or flute-like instrument.
[93] Carpæan dance: perhaps because one of the dancers represented a sower of grain (from karpos, fruit), or possibly from karpos, wrist, the wrists of one being bound.
[94] Mysian: from Mysia, Asia Minor.
[95] Pyrrhic dance: a kind of dance accompanied with every gesture of the body used in giving and avoiding blows.
[96] This appears to have been said jocosely in reference to the Persian King.
[97] Xenophon.
[98] Trireme: a war-vessel propelled by three ranks of rowers placed one above the other.
[99] Three thousand staters: about $11,500; ten thousand staters would be in round numbers about $38,000. The stater was a Greek gold coin; its value is usually given at about $5.00, but Grote here makes it considerably less.
[100] Cities: cities then were generally built with walls and gates, so that it was easy to exclude any whom they did not wish should enter.