Note 1 — Chapter I · ORIGIN OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND BARBARIANS.
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Under the name "barbarians" the Greeks included all who were not sprung from themselves—all who did not speak the Greek language.
[2] Syria was at that time the name of Cappadocia, as Herodotus himself elsewhere states.
[3] It is generally agreed that the name of Lycurgus's nephew was not Leobotas, but Charilaus. See the life of Lycurgus in the "Boys' and Girls' Plutarch."
[4] There is a Scriptural account of Ecbatana, in the Apocrypha. Judith i 1-4.
[5] Major Robinson states that the seven colors described by Herodotus, are those employed by the Orientals, to denote the seven planetary bodies.
[6] Several passages of our author seem to prove that Herodotus wrote other histories than those which have come down to us. Elsewhere in this book he speaks of his Assyrian history; and the second of the Libyan.
[7] Tartessus was situated between the two branches of the Bœtis, now the Guadalquiver.
[8] A proverbial expression signifying "that the victors suffered more than the vanquished."
[9] It was again taken by Darius; see end of Book III.
[10] That is, southeast.
[11] These words "pathemata mathemata" seem to have been a proverb in the Greek.