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[ {peripetea epoiesanto sphisi autoisi ta pregmata}.]
16 ([return])
[ {paleseie}, a word which does not occur elsewhere, and is explained by Hesychius as equivalent to {diaphtharein}. Various emendations have been proposed, and Valla seems to have had the reading {apelaseie}, for he says discessisset. Stein explains {paleseie} (as from {pale}) "should contend.">[
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[ Some suppose the number "four thousand" is interpolated by misunderstanding of the inscription in vii. 228; and it seems hardly possible that the dead were so many as four thousand, unless at least half were Helots.]
18 ([return])
[ Some MSS. have "Tritantaichmes," which is adopted by many Editors.]
19 ([return])
[ {neou}.]