Book 3 — Footnotes
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1.
A word conveying at once “welcome!” and “farewell!”
2.
The chief magistrate of an Attic commune.
3.
Attic law allowed a husband to will his wife to a friend.
4.
A kind of grasshopper peculiar to Greece.
5.
A kind of beetle common in Greece.
6.
“Give herself airs.”
7.
The police magistrates of Athens.
8.
A number, of course, grossly exaggerated.
9.
A pottage peculiar to Sparta, made of lumps of meat, salt, and much vinegar.
10.
Equivalent to crying “Hound!” in English.
11.
The serfs of the Spartans.
12.
The Phœnician Hercules.
13.
Nearly two hundred miles.
14.
Approximately September.
15.
A division in the Spartan army.
16.
Who in full force had joined the Persians.
17.
The rack.