[14] The grouping of these letters will be as follows:—
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 | α | ζ | λ | π | φ |
| 2 | β | η | μ | ρ | χ |
| 3 | γ | θ | ν | σ | ψ |
| 4 | δ | ι | ξ | τ | ω |
| 5 | ε | κ | ο | υ |
[15] Polybius confuses the Tanais (Don) with another Tanais or Iaxartes flowing into the south-east part of the Caspian.
[16] King of Bactria, see 11, 34.
[17] See Livy, 27, 39.
[18] Livy, 27, 44.
[19] There is nothing to show positively that a Rhodian is the speaker: but Livy mentions envoys from Rhodes and Ptolemy this year. For the special attempts of the Rhodians to bring about a peace between Philip and the Aetolians, see 5, 24, 100.
[20] The “Tarentines” were horsemen armed with light skirmishing javelins. See 4, [77]; 16, [18]; and cp. Arrian, Tact. 4, § 5; 18, § 2. Livy, 35, 28; 37, 40.
[22] The text is certainly corrupt here, and it is not clear what the general sense of the passage is beyond this,—that Philopoemen calculated on defeating the enemy, as he did, while struggling through the dyke: or on their exposing themselves to attack if they retreated from the dyke without crossing it.