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[ {touton mentoi eineka}: it is hardly possible here to give {mentoi} its usual meaning: Stein in his latest edition reads {touton men toinun}.]
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[ {suneneike}: Stein reads {suneneike se}, "supposing that thou art worsted.">[
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[ {ep andri ge eni}, as opposed to a god.]
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[ {akousesthai tina psemi ton k.t.l.}, "each one of those who are left behind.">[
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[ {kai Kurou}, a conjectural emendation of {tou Kurou}. The text of the MSS. enumerates all these as one continuous line of ascent. It is clear however that the enumeration is in fact of two separate lines, which combine in Teïspes, the line of ascent through the father Dareios being, Dareios, Hystaspes, Arsames, Ariamnes, Teïspes, and through the mother, Atossa, Cyrus, Cambyses, Teïspes.]