139 ([return])
[ {sitoisi}: perhaps "plain dishes.">[
140 ([return])
[ {proskuneei}, i.e. kisses his feet or the ground.]
141 ([return])
[ {ton legomenon}, a correction of {to legomeno}. (The Medicean MS. has {toi legomenoi} like the rest, not {toi legomeno}, as stated by Stein.)]
142 ([return])
[ {ekhomenon, kata ton auton de logon}: the MSS. and most Editors have {ekhomenon}. {kata ton auton de logon}; "and this same rule the Persians observe in giving honour." This, however, makes it difficult (though not impossible) to refer {to ethnos} in the next clause to the Medes, and it can hardly be referred to the Persians, who certainly had not the same system of government. Perhaps however we may translate thus, "for each race extended forward thus their rule or their deputed authority.">[
143 ([return])
[ Cp. vii. 194.]