[23] Or, according to another reading “five stades.” Livy, 28, 14, says quingentos passus.
[24] The text is imperfect.
[25] Handing it over to L. Lentulus and L. Manlius Acidinus, Livy, 28, 38.
[26] That is the Caucasus Indicus or Paropamisus: mod. Hindú Kúsh.
[27] Cp. a similar custom of the Lycians, Herod. 1, 173.
[28] He may have been referring to pre-homeric times, cp. Herod. 6, 137, οὐ γὰρ εἶναι τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον σφίσι κω οὐδὲ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι Ἕλλησι οἰκέτας.
[29] The text is very imperfect here.
[30] For this title see on 22, 19. It is found in inscriptions in Thasos, Crete, and Cibyra. C.I.G. 2163, c; 2583; 4380, b.
[31] Both Curtius and Arrian seem to have found in their authorities that Darius crossed the Pinarus. Curt. 3, 8; Arrian, 2, 8.
[32] Reckoning the stade at 600 feet (Greek).