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93 ([return])
[ {katesphaxe}, "cut their throats.">[

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94 ([return])
[ {para tas gluphidas}: some Editors read {peri tas gluphidas} on the authority of Æneas Tacticus. The {gluphides} are probably notches which give a hold for the fingers as they draw back the string.]

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95 ([return])
[ {kataplexai}, "strike down" by the charge.]

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96 ([return])
[ The way was shut against them ordinarily by the town of Potidaia, which occupied the isthmus.]

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97 ([return])
[ i.e. most of those who before served as {epibatai} (vii. 96) continued to serve still. The sentence is usually translated, "of those who served as fighting-men in them the greater number were Persians or Medes," and this may be right.]