Note 162 — Chapter IV
J. S. (John Selby) Watson translation
Ην ἡ κώμη.] Schneider, Bornemann, and most editors before Dindorf, read κώμη, a village, without the article. Dindorf has added the article from two manuscripts, and Kühner has followed him, supposing that the particular village of which the Greeks had now caught sight is meant. Bornemann, if the article be added, thinks that the village in which the palace stood is intended. The passage seems to me decidedly better without the article; for, if it be inserted, the reader is puzzled to know why Xenophon changes the number, when he had just before said that the palace stood in the midst of villages.