120 ([return])
[ "innumerable sights of buildings.">[
121 ([return])
[ {tassomenon}, "posted," like an army; but the text is probably unsound: so also in the next line, where the better MSS. have {men Boubasti poli}, others {e en Boubasti polis}. Stein reads {e en Boubasti poli}, "the earth at the city of Bubastis." Perhaps {e en Boubasti polis} might mean the town as opposed to the temple, as Mr. Woods suggests.]
122 ([return])
[ Cp. ch. 161, {egeneto apo prophasios, ton k.t.l.} Perhaps however {prophasin} is here from {prophaino} (cp. Soph. Trach. 662), and it means merely "that the gods were foreshowing him this in order that," etc. So Stein.]
123 ([return])
[ i.e. for their customary gift or tribute to him as king.]
124 ([return])
[ The chronology is inconsistent, and some propose, without authority, to read "three hundred years.">[